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Whole Day Download the Hansard Thursday Volume 648 1 November 2018 No. 200 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 1 November 2018 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2018 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 1031 1 NOVEMBER 2018 1032 Government doing to ensure that lesser-known tourist House of Commons attractions such as Kelmscott Manor, Crocodiles of the World and Cotswold Wildlife Park have their fair share Thursday 1 November 2018 of the tourism cake to bring in all those benefits? Michael Ellis: As you know, Mr Speaker, West The House met at half-past Nine o’clock Oxfordshire is a beautiful part of the country and we are supporting it in a number of ways. VisitBritain has organised travel trade trips to West Oxfordshire, including PRAYERS to Blenheim Palace. My officials at the Department also work closely with Experience Oxfordshire, a good [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] organisation that makes sure that as many visitors as possible come to that part of the UK. Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab): With the building Oral Answers to Questions of the new £83 million international convention centre at Celtic Manor, there is huge potential for Newport. What are Ministers doing with the Wales Office to encourage more events and conferences in Newport, the DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT home of the NATO summit in 2014? The Secretary of State was asked— Michael Ellis: I commend the hon. Lady for her support for that conference facility.Conferences, business Tourism events and events of all types are very important to the economy of this country. We engage with the Wales 1. Kirstene Hair (Angus) (Con): What steps he is Office, as indeed we do with the Scottish Government, taking to support tourism throughout the UK. [907394] to support business events. 2. Robert Courts (Witney) (Con): What steps he is Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP): It is nice to have taking to support tourism throughout the UK. [907395] the festival for Great Britain and Northern Ireland that is due to take place in 2022. Will the Minister commit to The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, ensuring that Northern Ireland does not get left behind Culture, Media and Sport (Michael Ellis): Tourism is and has the same opportunities as our GB counterparts hugely important for the UK. One of my major focuses to show off our business, technology, culture, sport and is to encourage visitors from across the world to visit arts expertise to the rest of the world? the whole of the United Kingdom. We provide financial support through both VisitBritain and VisitEngland, Michael Ellis: Northern Ireland will certainly not be which are responsible for promoting the UK through a left behind. I was delighted to visit Belfast only a few range of initiatives and campaigns. weeks ago, when I saw its wonderful tourism offer, including the Titanic exhibition and so much else. I Kirstene Hair: One of the many reasons why millions would recommend visiting Northern Ireland to anyone, of people from around the world come to the UK and as there are wonderful tourism opportunities—“Game Scotland is because of our world-class food and drink of Thrones” is filmed there, and there is so much else. sector, of which Angus is a powerhouse—the Minister is very welcome to come and taste our Forfar bridie whenever he wishes. Can he reassure me that the UK Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con): Steve Ridgway Government are working to support the Scottish food of VisitBritain, along with Anthony Pickles, together and drink industry, and to develop the necessary links with airlines, hotels and all the rest of it, have pulled between that sector and the UK tourism industry? together a sector deal. I do not want to bore the House because I have raised this before, but when are the Michael Ellis: I thank my hon. Friend for that question Government going to support it? because we are working hard to protect and promote some of our world-leading produce, and she is doing a Michael Ellis: My Department is working very hard wonderful job in her Angus constituency with regard to on that matter. We have been pursuing it and we continue tourism as well as many other areas. I am sure that she to do so. will join me in welcoming the Chancellor’s Budget because the support it shows to the whisky industry by Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab): freezing duty clearly helps. Food and drink is particularly Tourism should not just be beaches and city breaks. The important. I attended a board meeting yesterday of the wonders of Ealing include our world famous studios of GREAT campaign, which covers Scotland, and I am Ealing comedy and Downton fame, the basement blues disappointed that the Scottish Government have not club where the Stones first played, and the Questors been as supportive of that campaign as my hon. Friend. theatre, the biggest am-dram venue in the world. They should all be linked together in a cultural quarter, but Robert Courts: West Oxfordshire has many famous our council is cash-strapped in its provision of even the tourist attractions that bring economic benefits to the most basic services. The Minister mentioned the effect surrounding areas, including Blenheim Palace, which of Brexit on the number of overseas visitors. [Interruption.] attracts almost 1 million visitors annually. What are the So my question is—[Interruption.] I was building up to 1033 Oral Answers 1 NOVEMBER 2018 Oral Answers 1034 the question, Mr Speaker; thank you for reminding me. Mr Speaker: Order. I am sorry, but there is great What are the Government doing to put suburbs on the pressure on time today because the House has decreed a tourist trail? 10 o’clock finish for substantive questions, so shorter questions and shorter answers are needed. Michael Ellis: We want to support tourism around the country, and of course that includes Ealing. The Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe) (Con): Does hon. Lady mentioned Ealing Studios and the Ealing the Minister accept, however, that Google is accepting comedies—I think I have a box set actually—and the ads through Viagogo agents that are in breach of consumer reality is that VisitBritain and VisitEngland support protection law and of Google’s own terms of service, lots of programmes around the country. [Interruption.] and that it is effectively taking money through being Some of the comedians are on the Opposition Benches party to a fraud by allowing those ads to run? at the moment. Margot James: I absolutely sympathise with my hon. Steve Double (St Austell and Newquay) (Con): The Friend’s point of view. I have had discussions with biggest concern for the tourist industry at the moment Google on this very point. I think it is safe to say that is access to labour once we end the free movement of we have a difference of view, but I remain optimistic people. Will the Minister join my calls for the Government that the search engines will comply with their own to introduce a seasonal migrant workers scheme for the terms and conditions in the end. tourism and hospitality sector? Ian C. Lucas (Wrexham) (Lab): Does the Minister agree that it is also important to focus on the supply of Michael Ellis: We are in close discussions with our tickets, and that we must ask artists and promoters to colleagues in the Home Office about that, and my hon. ensure that they work with venues to restrict the supply Friend can be assured, as can the whole House, that I of tickets to sites such as Viagogo? am representing the tourism sector and all its interests. Margot James: The hon. Gentleman makes a good Secondary Ticketing Websites point. We have taken a lot of action that is resulting in an improvement in the situation and a reduction in the 3. Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland availability of tickets on these very questionable sites. West) (Lab): What recent discussions he has had with internet service providers on the occurrence of secondary Mr Speaker: I call Mary Robinson. Not here. I call ticketing websites in search rankings. [907396] Andrew Rosindell. Not here. What is going on? Where are our colleagues? I hope that they are well and that they will be back. I call Jack Brereton. The Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries (Margot James): I take this issue very seriously, and I know that the hon. Lady has done fantastic work on it Creative Industries over the years. Ticketing website advertisements must comply with the Advertising Standards Authority code, 6. Jack Brereton (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Con): What and those using advertising facilities attached to search steps he is taking to support the creative industries engines must also comply with their terms of service to throughout the UK. [907400] prevent misleading ads and to protect consumers. I am in touch with internet service providers, and they assure The Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries me that they are prepared to take action where necessary. (Margot James): The creative industries are a great British success story. They generate £91.8 billion for our Mrs Hodgson: I thank the Minister for her work on economy and are responsible for 2 million jobs, so we this issue and her support for my work on it. According are committed to supporting all creative businesses. The to research by the FanFair Alliance in a study carried sector deal that was published earlier this year contains out earlier this year, Viagogo was in the top two results £150 million of private and public sector funding to on Google in 80 out of 100 searches.
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