HC Deb 14 July 1938 vol 338 cc1533-4W
Commander Marsden

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will seek legislative power to give effect to the recommendations of the Sudeley Committee designed to make the contents of the Sir John Soane Museum, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, available at hours convenient to the public and appoint a committee of museum experts to rearrange the contents so that they can be better seen, as improvements of this nature have, during the past 20 years, been frequently but unsuccessfully suggested to the trustees of the museum?

Captain Wallace

Sir John Soane's Museum is a private foundation, and the Government are not prepared to ask Parliament to intervene in its management.