§ Mr. Fauldsasked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what were the total amounts at 1 January covered by certificates of indemnity issued by the national museums, galleries and libraries in England in respect of objects on long-term loans to their permanent collections on a long-term basis, broken down to the individual institutions, and recording the comprehensive total for all the institutions together.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneI have been asked to reply.
For those institutions covered in the answer given to the hon. Gentleman's question on 24 January 1979 the total was £33,873,387. The amounts in respect of the individual institutions are given below:
£ British Library … 2,300,000 British Museum … 2,174,545* Science Museum … 500,000 Victoria and Albert Museum … 12,134,188 Imperial War Museum … 374,000 National Gallery … 10,750,000 National Maritime Museum … 1,162,654 National Portrait Gallery … 678,000 Tate Gallery … 3,800,000 * This figure does not include a painting by a Japanese artist that was held by the British Museum at 1 January as part of its permanent collection on a long-term basis, but had not at that date been valued.