Oral Answers to Questions

Jim Sheridan Excerpts

Thursday 15th December 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

Absolutely. There is the Olympic torch visit to Dover next year, and it is a way to ensure that many other major coastal tourist attractions will get into not just the national but the global spotlight next year.

[Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North) (Lab)]

Many tourists visiting this country earlier this month would have been horrified when they turned on their television sets in their hotel room only to find a highly paid public presenter advocate that British citizens should be taken out and shot in front their families. What does that say about the future of Britain and what kind of message does it send to the rest of the world?

[Mr Hunt]

I do not think it says anything at all about our tourism industry.