Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of gross value added has been generated by the tourism sector in each of the regions of England in each of the last five years.
The latest data of regional GVA was for 2013. This data is held by the Office of National Statistics. The results are as follow:
Region | Tourism direct gross value added (£ millions) in regions and nations of the UK in 2013 |
London | 15391.4 |
South East | 8240.2 |
North West | 5799.8 |
South West | 5517.6 |
East of England | 4304.2 |
West Midlands | 3757.6 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 3244.8 |
East Midlands | 2573.6 |
North East | 1578.0 |
Total England | 50,407.2 |