John Kelly (Labour)

Why are we not promoting tourism in China and India to a greater degree that we currently are given that those are the emerging markets? We need to reduce the red tape for Chinese and Indian business people and tourists to enter this country.

The Minister opened the Small Firms Association's conference yesterday and my brother was the keynote speaker following the Minister. At that meeting an entrepreneur said that the hoops he had to go through to arrange for his Indian business partner to come over here were shocking and embarrassing. He said that no such issues arise in travelling to the UK. Those are some of the issues that we need to examine.