Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made with the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the contribution of the sea going passenger cruise industry to the economy.

The Department fully recognises that the cruise sector brings significant economic benefits to the UK, particularly coastal communities. A Maritime UK study published in 2019 showed that in 2017 cruise directly and indirectly contributed £9.4 billion to the UK economy and supported 82,000 jobs.