Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Tracey Crouch and Douglas Carswell

Thursday 3rd December 2015 Commons Chamber

[Tracey Crouch]

Outdoor activity is a hugely important part of the tourism offer in rural areas across the whole UK, and the total annual tourism spending attributed to leisure activities is phenomenal. It is of course a key strand of the new strategy, and as tourism Minister I can say that it links in nicely with some of our other activities.

[Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton) (UKIP)]

T9. There is mounting evidence that the BBC and its licence fee are inhibiting local newspapers’ ability to develop online. If the Secretary of State is to water down his previous antipathy to the licence fee, will he at least prevent it from being used in a way that hurts non-licence fee-funded local media?