EU Withdrawal: Tourism and Hospitality Industries Debate

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EU Withdrawal: Tourism and Hospitality Industries

Baroness Ludford Excerpts
Monday 18th April 2016

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl of Courtown Portrait The Earl of Courtown
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The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, is quite right about the dynamism of this industry. He also mentioned the VisitEngland programme, which tries to ensure that more people come to visit the United Kingdom and that once they come to the United Kingdom, particularly to the capital, London, they venture outside London to visit attractions all over the United Kingdom.

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My Lords, does the Minister agree that EU environmental law on wildlife and habitats protection, clean beaches and clean rivers and so on, as well as EU funding for those purposes, helps to maintain our country and its countryside as green, pleasant and inviting, and that Brexit could undermine all that?