Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she plans to make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the (a) number and proportion of hotels that charge and (b) transparency of service levies for hotel bookings.

The Government currently has no plans to make an assessment of service levies for hotel bookings.

The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (CCRs) require that traders must give full information about the price of the product including any unavoidable extra charges before purchase. These must be given in a clear and comprehensible manner.