§ Mr. Peter Walkerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many experts the Treasury employs to examine objects on which exemption from death duties is claimed under Section 40 of the Finance Act, 1930, as amended by Section 48 of the Finance Act, 1950; from what museums or galleries these experts were drawn in 1963–64; and how many separate objects they examined in each of the two years.
§ Mr. MacDermotThe Treasury employs no experts solely for this purpose, but take advice from the national museums and galleries and elsewhere as occasion requires. In the two years 1963 and 1964 experts were drawn from the following museums and galleries.
- National Gallery.
- National Portrait Gallery.
- Tate Gallery.
- National Gallery for Scotland.
- British Museum.
- Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Royal Scottish Museum.
- National Museum of Wales.
- National Library of Scotland.
No record is available of the number of separate objects they examined in each of the two years.