§ Mr. Hornbyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a list showing the number of visitors to each of the museums which is a charge on the funds of his Department in respect of the most recent convenient 12–month period.
§ Miss Jennie Lee:The number of visitors during the calendar year 1969 to museums which are a charge on the funds of my Department were as follows:
Science Museum … 2,126,077 Victoria and Albert Museum … 1,262,567 Bethnal Green Museum … 151,237 Ham House … 27,738 Osterley Park House … 28,941 Wellington Museum … 43,856 Sir John Soane's Museum … 20,710 The following are not a charge on the monies voted to my Department but are national collections for which I have a policy responsibility:
British Museum 2,051,141 British Museum (Natural History) 1,368,061 Tring Branch Museum 73,249 Geological Museum 502,076 Imperial War Museum 622,036 London Museum 284,361 State Apartments 148,810 National Gallery 1,553,252 National Maritime Museum 719,051 Old Royal Observatory 402,265 National Portrait Gallery 322,962 Tate Gallery 932,664 Wallace Collection 149,801