Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between James Gray and Hugh Robertson

Thursday 13th September 2012 Commons Chamber

[Hugh Robertson]

That is the silliest question I have heard in two and half years. Let me make it absolutely clear that I loved the opening ceremony and that, far from the tourism Minister being abolished, he is standing before you.

[Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire) (Con)]

Does the Minister agree that the £122 million that the Government are about to spend on the so-called GREAT campaign, celebrating all that is great about Great Britain—including, in my case, the great adventurers and great climbers, which will launch in October—is extremely good value for money? How much does he expect the country to benefit from that £122 million investment in inward tourism, and how does he intend to monitor the return?