HC Deb 28 February 1977 vol 927 cc16-7W
Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she will suspend the termination of the circularisation department at the Victoria and Albert Museum while efforts are made to raise funding from private industry to pay the necessary salaries for one year.

Mr. Oakes

No. The associated staff savings are required as part of the announced reductions in Civil Service manpower. In her reply to my right hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Strauss), my right hon. Friend explained the steps being taken to maintain facilities for the circulation of material to local museums and educational institutions, and to examine further possible progress in throwing open the national heritage over the country as a whole.