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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of tourists from India who visit Greater Manchester each year; and what assessment her Department has made of the impact of those tourists on the economy of Greater Manchester.

The latest International Passenger Survey from the Office of National Statistics (and supported by VisitBritain) found that in 2019 there were 39,990 visits to Greater Manchester from India.

Visits from India were equivalent to 2% of the total 1.9m international visits (1,894,760) to Greater Manchester that year, and the £52m spend (£51,959,650) from Indian visitors represented 6% of the total spend from international visits of £850m (£850,075,740) in Greater Manchester.