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Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

12th Special Report - Garden design and tourism: Government Response to the Committee’s Fourteenth Report

Published 10 October 2019

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The government's response

This document responds to 14th Report - Garden design and tourism.

This is the government's response, published 10 October 2019.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Government accepts or agrees with several recommendations on garden tourism, declines the proposed 'UK Garden City' initiative, and only partially accepts those on economic statistics and the garden workforce.

  • On marketing, the Government "accepts" there is potential to leverage the appeal of UK gardens more concertedly, and the Minister is "convening and chairing a garden tourism marketing meeting this autumn".
  • On the Tourism Data Hub, it "accepts" that the Hub "could help to measure the economic contribution of garden tourism", noting the Hub is "at an early stage of development".
  • It does not accept a "UK Garden City" initiative, citing a risk of "confusion with City of Culture and other extant schemes" that "could dilute the positive impact" of those schemes.
  • On including gardens in DCMS Economic Estimates, it "partially accepts" the recommendation, saying it does "not expect to be able to put the revised measures in place much before the end of 2021" and "will not commit to providing measures for any particular sector or subsector".

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