Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has carried out an assessment of the effect of high commission costs and the low transparency of such costs in the online travel agent sector on the ability of consumers to achieve value for money when booking hotels.

DCMS has not conducted an assessment of the effect that commission costs, or their transparency, have on the ability of consumers to achieve value for money when booking hotels online.