Question follow-through · 86850
Tourism: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential benefits for her policies on tourism of appointing a full-time Tourism Minister focused exclusively on tourism.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Culture, media and sport
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential benefits for her policies on tourism of appointing a full-time Tourism Minister focused exclusively on tourism.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government has a Minister responsible for Tourism, within a portfolio that also includes Sport, Civil Society and Youth. As ambitions to promote growth and improve the productivity of the tourism sector are reliant on a cross-government approach, DCMS...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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