Friend is right to draw attention to the role of the British pub as an integral part of the local heritage in many parts of the country. Not only buildings but the names of pubs often reflect local history or events. We are surely in danger of losing an important part of local history and folk memory. Certainly, consulting a pub's regulars and the wider local community before renaming it would not seem too much to ask. My officials and I have regular contact with local authorities and business partnerships from seaside resorts, and with organisations such as the British Resorts Association, in which my hon.
Friend plays a leading role.
Let me say how pleased I was to attend the association's annual meeting both this year and last. Friend is zealous in defending within the Government the interests of seaside towns. I hope that she will have time to visit seaside towns and talk to local hoteliers this summer and that she will listen to the concerns that many of them have about assisted area status grants for tourism under tier 3, and relay those concerns to her colleagues in the Department of Trade and Industry. We shall continue to look at that very closely. I reassure him that I will visit his constituency on the first day of the seaside town tour that my right hon.