Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered at on 3 July 2018.
Dan Jarvis
Labour, Barnsley Central
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department will make an estimate of the financial contribution of the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire to the UK economy.
Tracey Crouch
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
Sport makes a significant economic contribution to the UK. According to my department’s Sport Satellite Account, in 2016 the value of the sports economy was just over £37 billion (gross value added). According to independent research carried out by Leeds Beckett University, the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire boosted the county's economy by almost £64 million.
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