Tourism Mark Durkan To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what local government financial support there was for tourism in (a) rural and (b) urban areas in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. David Cairns No records are held centrally to distinguish between expenditure on tourism in rural and urban areas. However, figures have been extracted from the annual accounts of each of the 26 district councils, covering the period 2000-01 to 2004-05, from which some assessment of the rural/urban split may be made. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |District council |2000-01 |2001-02 |2002-03 |2003-04 |2004-05 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Antrim |384,242 |382,352 |131,065 |137,714 |411,749 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ards |1,791,405|1,730,816|1,996,892|1,817,694|2,104,034| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Armagh |1,889,346|1,820,714|1,878,701|1,902,161|2,211,959| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ballymena |244,235 |291,567 |2,064,865|1,732,448|1,810,093| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ballymoney |195,415 |256,743 |290,280 |353,688 |376,845 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Banbridge |432,993 |423,621 |351,966 |332,385 |472,643 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Belfast |1,282,104|1,650,359|2,382,365|2,527,971|3,681,576| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Carrickfergus |1,345,543|1,497,345|1,174,692|903,315 |782,510 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Castlereagh |— |— |— |— |— | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Coleraine |2,816,931|3,160,519|3,220,908|3,120,466|3,378,541| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cookstown |410,854 |392,105 |339,456 |352,157 |394,590 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Craigavon |450,675 |429,647 |469,714 |449,741 |428,193 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Derry |2,017,906|2,205,526|931,895 |915,610 |894,999 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Down |807,526 |949,165 |1,311,237|1,455,992|1,444,757| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Dungannon and S Tyrone|273,092 |295,238 |286,096 |282,394 |299,654 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Fermanagh |1,400,000|1,382,561|1,307,651|1,429,463|1,317,456| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Larne |1,278,220|1,310,224|798,512 |795,748 |836,148 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Limavady |615,142 |750,351 |559,619 |755,216 |798,045 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------