HC Deb 10 July 1974 vol 876 c505W
Mr. Strauss

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many national museums and regional museums there now are in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Hugh Jenkins

There are 18 museums and galleries customarily referred to as national institutions, apart from those financed from the Defence Vote, and, at the last count, approximately 950 others in the United Kingdom.