§ Mr. Fauldsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the provision of special extraordinary grants from the Treasury contingency reserve towards the purchase of particular outstanding works of art for public museums is not pre 240W cluded in principle by any current convention or rule.
§ Mr. Joel Barnett,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 17th January 1978; Vol. 942, c. 770], gave the following information:
No. Special purchase grants are treated in the same way as other departmental programmes so far as access to the contingency reserve is concerned.