Tourism: Overnight Visitor Levy Debate
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Nusrat Ghani
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Tourism: Overnight Visitor Levy
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Several hon. Members rose—
Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)
You are not in your usual place, Chris Vince, but I can still see you.
Chris Vince (Harlow) (Lab/Co-op)
I was going to start by making a joke about always being picked last, Madam Deputy Speaker, but you have ruined it by picking me early on—thank you for that. I will try it anyway.
I am used to getting picked last in this place, but I was picked first when the new Prime Minister visited Harlow and my local pub. There, he had the opportunity to talk to Mr McMullen, the head of McMullen’s breweries, who said that this Government are doing more to support the pub trade than the previous one did. To change the subject, though, may I ask the Minister about how this tourist levy has been put in place in other G7 countries—where it has been very successful—and what he has learned from other countries?
Several hon. Members rose—
Madam Deputy Speaker
Order. We have two further urgent questions, a statement and lots of business, so let us try to keep questions and answers short.
Sir Julian Lewis (New Forest East) (Con)
If the New Forest and the Waterside were forced into a unitary authority dominated by Southampton and Eastleigh, what chance would there be of local authorities looking after the interests of rural areas?