Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 December 1964.
Mr Michael Hutchison
, Edinburgh South
12:00,
16 December 1964
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what action he is taking to improve the tourist industry in Scotland.
Mr William Ross
, Kilmarnock
I would refer the hon. Member to the Answer which I gave to the right hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Sir W. AnstrutherGray) on 14th December.
Mr Michael Hutchison
, Edinburgh South
Has the Secretary of State worked out what damage the fuel tax has done to hotel keepers and other traders in outlying parts of Scotland? What does he intend to do about it?
Mr William Ross
, Kilmarnock
If the rest of the residents of Scotland were as gloomy as the hon. Gentleman, we should have no chance of getting any tourists at all.
Mr Michael Noble
, Argyll
Does not the right hon. Gentleman remember how incredibly gloomy he was about Scotland in the last few years?
Mr William Ross
, Kilmarnock
And I have every reason, because the right hon. Gentleman sought to cure all our tourist difficulties by a Countryside Bill, and after reflection he tore the thing up realising that it was a non-starter.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
