Portraits (Public Acquisition)

HC Deb 06 March 1975 vol 887 cc483-4W

Mr. Robert Cooke

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether in considering the matter of the public acquisition of Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of Laurence Sterne with his colleagues he is taking account of any other portrait by a major British portrait painter of a major British literary figure likely to be offered for sale.

Mr. Hugh Jenkins

Every such case is considered on its merits.