§ Mr. Fauldsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the sums paid to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue from the national land fund during the year ended 31 March, comprising the total for that financial year and a detailed breakdown in respect of the individual transactions concerned.
§ Mr. Peter Rees[pursuant to his reply, 2 April 1980, c. 248]: During 1979–80 the sum of £2,585,210 was paid to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue from the national land fund made up as follows:
£ Paintings by Rubens and Bellini and a drawing by Martini 190,230 A Collection of Goya etchings 185,000 Representative items of Chinese armorial porcelain 1,670 Painting "A Frozen River Scene" by Aert Van der Neer 71,070 Painting "The Battle of Pavia" by an unknown Italian painter 16,500 Garter regalia of the 1st Earl of Northampton 151,400 Land in the Lake District 448,000 The manuscripts of Benjamin Britten 190,000 A group of five portraits from Arundel Castle 140,286 15 Paintings by Sir Winston Churchill and a flag 57,475 Painting "Death of Procris" by Elsheimer 52,375 Two paintings by Alfred Sisley 71,162 A painting "St. Tropez" by Renoir 53,065 Michelangelo drawings for "The Last Judgement" 98,970 The late Henry W. Williamson's collection of manuscripts 13,800 A collection of silver, silver-gilt and gold heirlooms 133,430 Seven illuminated manuscripts of the eleventh to fifteenth centuries 248,680 A drawing " Study of a Young Man " by Luca Signorelli 52,250 A collection of Hebrew manuscripts 331,597 The property "Labour in Vain" Farm, Puncknowle, Dorset 78,250