§ COLONEL STOPFORD-SACKVILLE (Northamptonshire, N.)To ask the hon. Member for Chorley, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether he 318 can say on how many days during the last three years the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery, or either, have been closed to the public for a part or whole of a day owing to the prevalence of fog or darkness; and whether, seeing the inconvenience caused to sightseers by such closing without notice, he can hold out any hopes that either gallery will have the same provision for artificial lighting extended to it as has been sanctioned in the Wallace Museum.
(Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) The two branches of the National Gallery were closed in consequence of fog during the last three years as follows:—