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Tourism

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord. I was struggling and I am extremely grateful for his contribution. I hope that Hansard will attribute to him the correct English at that point. As ever, I am in his debt. I assure the House that from the initiatives and support that the Government are offering to tourism, we will have a rich legacy in the immediate future as well as when we get to 2012 and the Olympic Games. There is much to be done. The noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, was right in his analysis of how the disparate parts require a great deal of enhanced cohesion. That means that there is a role for government in bringing people together for clear objectives. We are putting extra money into tourism, although not at the level that the noble Lord would want. His proposals form a package that, at a rapid calculation, would probably cost between £10 million and £15 million. We cannot produce money quite like that out of the hat, but we have devoted an extra £2 million to tourism this year for aspects of co-ordination and development. If the noble Lord’s intention was to ensure that tourism was a clear priority for my department—I emphasise that it is a continuing priority—I want to give him that reassurance.