§ Mr. ISAAC FOOTasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if his attention has been called to the fact that inadequate facilities exist for the exhibition at Lancaster House of the Cromwellian collection, presented to the nation by Lady Caroline Tangye and Sir H. Lincoln Tangye in 1912; that, as a result, the collection has been largely dispersed and, in part, put in storage; and whether, having regard to the interest and value of the collection, more adequate arrangements can be made for its proper exhibition?
Mr. HORS-BELISHASo far as I am aware, the trustees of the London 2613W Museum have made no representations that the facilities available at Lancaster House are inadequate for the purposes of the collections for which they are responsible. As regards the second and third parts of the question, the arrangement under which a part of the Tangye collection is permanently on view, and is constantly changed, while the remainder is preserved in a strong-room and is available at any time for inspection on inquiry, is in accordance with the practice common in the national museums. Apart from this arrangement, there has been no dispersal of the collection.