Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Angus Brendan MacNeil Excerpts
Wednesday 26th March 2014

(10 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Crabb Portrait Stephen Crabb
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My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is clear that hosting the NATO summit is a huge opportunity to showcase the best of Wales, and particularly south-east Wales. I am delighted to tell the hon. Gentleman that my colleagues in the Wales Offices have recently visited both those tourist attractions and are well aware of the opportunities they afford for visitors to the summit.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Na h-Eileanan an Iar is some distance from south-east Wales, but let us hear Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil.

Angus Brendan MacNeil Portrait Mr MacNeil
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Surely tourism in Wales would be helped by action on VAT, as in the Republic of Ireland, and that would also help my constituency of Na h-Eileanan an Iar.

Stephen Crabb Portrait Stephen Crabb
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Visitor numbers to Wales increased strongly last year and they are increasing faster than for visitors to England and Scotland. There is no evidence to suggest that VAT rates are a deterrent for visitors to Wales.