Written Question·Treasury·UIN 85135
Tourism: Tax Yields
Tabled: 27 October 2025
Answered: 5 November 2025
Named DayQuestion
Dame Caroline Dinenage
Conservative — Gosport
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to correspondence from the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury to the Chair of the Association of International Retail dated October 15th 2025, on what evidential basis the Exchequer Secretary stated
Answer
Dan TomlinsonThe 103% figure for the UK’s real recovery in tourism receipts between 2019 and 2023 is based on official data. The underlying data comes from the ONS Balance of Payments (series FJPF), which tracks spending in the UK by overseas visitors. To adjust for i...
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