§ Mr. Ridleyasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the number of occasions in 1963 and 1964 on which the Treasury called on experts to examine objects on which exemption from death duties was claimed, from each of the nine national museums and galleries.
§ Mr. MacDermotThe table below shows the number of occasions upon which the Treasury took advice from the national museums and galleries for the purpose.
1963 1964 National Gallery … 26 19 National Portrait Gallery … 22 12 Victoria and Albert Museum … 87 57 British Museum … 22 31 Tate Gallery … 23 13 National Gallery of Scotland … 3 5 Royal Scottish Museum … 3 1 National Museum of Wales … 3 1 National Library of Scotland … — 1