HC Deb 14 June 1978 vol 951 c535W
Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether any consideration has been given to the establishment, apart from the collections of photographic material and apparatus held by individual museums, of a National Photographic Museum with its own archives and historic apparatus in a specially designated building.

Mr. Oakes

My noble Friend the Minister with responsibility for the arts has receiver a proposal for the establishment of such a museum, but major problems of manpower and finance would have to be solved before the proposal could be developed.