Parliament: Visits

Geraldine Smith
To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission how many participants in tours of Parliament booked through the central tours office which took place in the last 12 months came from each part of the UK.

Nick Harvey
Information is not available in exactly the form requested. The table gives a regional breakdown of the number of tours booked by Members through the Central Tours Office for the year April 2008 to March 2009 inclusive.

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|Region                  |Number of sponsoring Members|Number of tours booked|Percentage|
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|East Midlands           |44                          |802                   |6         |
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|East of England         |57                          |1,341                 |11        |
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|London                  |78                          |2,459                 |20        |
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|North East              |29                          |328                   |3         |
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|North West              |74                          |1,170                 |9         |
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|South East              |83                          |2,058                 |17        |
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|South West              |51                          |1,025                 |8         |
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|West Midlands           |58                          |964                   |8         |
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|Yorkshire and The Humber|54                          |746                   |6         |
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|Northern Ireland        |15                          |232                   |2         |
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|Scotland                |57                          |739                   |6         |
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|Wales                   |40                          |456                   |4         |
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|Incomplete data         |2                           |26                    |0         |
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|Total                   |—                           |12,346                |100       |
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