§ Mr. Fauldsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will recommend special Treasury grants over and above any normal grants which the Victoria and Albert Museum is able to give from its local purchases fund in order to enable the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford and the Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery to buy Canaletto's two views of Warwick Castle.
§ Mr. Denzil Davies,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 17th March], gave the following information:
It is, in the first instance, for my noble Friend the Minister with responsibility 523W for the Arts to consider applications for special purchase grants. I have received no request from him for such a grant for these two paintings.