Works of Art (Reviewing Committee on Exports)

HC Deb 18 October 1976 vol 917 cc271-2W

Mr. Hugh Jenkins

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what has been the annual cost of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art; and what was the cost to public funds of the Committee's current Report, Command Paper No. 6624.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

The Chairman and members of the Reviewing Committee, including the directors and keepers who serve on the committee for particular meetings, give their services free, but can claim travelling and subsistence expenses. In the last three years these expenses have been:

1973–74	…	…	…	£151
1974–75	…	…	…	£224
1975–76	…	…	…	£324

Secretarial and administrative services are provided as part of the work of my Department and are not separately costed.

The cost to Her Majesty's Stationery Office of publishing the recent report is estimated at nearly £1,100. Part of this cost will be recovered by income from sales.