Karl McCartney – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karl McCartney on 2016-06-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of recent trends in (a) the level of and (b) regional variations in the level of domestic tourism.

David Evennett

The number of overnight trips in England in 2015 was up 11% on 2014, with associated spend reaching a new record of £19.6bn. In 2015, five English regions (East Midlands, West Midlands, South West, Yorkshire and the Humber and London) saw double digit growth in domestic overnight trips on the previous year.