{"id":3162,"date":"2023-11-16T18:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2024-01-11T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T10:52:01","slug":"tourism-industry-devon-and-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3162","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Industry: Devon and Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale\u00a0The Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was pleased to visit south Devon in August and to meet members of the&nbsp;Great South West&nbsp;tourism partnership. I am also pleased that Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have recently been accredited as a local visitor economy partnership and that Devon is working with&nbsp;VisitEngland&nbsp;towards potential accreditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kevin Foster\u00a0Conservative, Torbay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;knows, the tourism sector in our region is iconic, but any rises in business rate&nbsp;bills&nbsp;that local hospitality businesses are required to pay could see many struggle. While it is for the&nbsp;Chancellor&nbsp;to set out tax changes, can he outline what representations he is making to the Chancellor to freeze the business rate multiplier and extend the 75% relief for hospitality for a further year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale\u00a0The Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I discussed a range of issues affecting tourism in Devon with the&nbsp;Great South West&nbsp;tourism partnership. We covered a lot of ground, and I know that those issues are of great importance to the tourism sector. Of course, we are in regular dialogue with the Treasury, but it is a matter for the&nbsp;Chancellor, as my hon. Friend says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale\u00a0The Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) I was pleased to visit south Devon in August and to meet members of the&nbsp;Great South West&nbsp;tourism partnership. I am also pleased that Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have recently been accredited as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}