§ Mr. Fauldsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he intends to take following the publication of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries working party report on conservation and its recommendations on (a) the creation of 10 new trainee conservator posts for non-national museums, (b) the establishment of senior posts in the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Gallery for the dissemination of conservation information and (c) enabling the British Museum (Natural History) and the Royal Scottish Museum each to accept one taxidermy trainee and the former to conduct seminars in advanced taxidermy.
§ Mr. ChannonMy predecessor wrote last year to the chairman of the Standing Commission, welcoming this report. Its recommendations are sensible and practical, and deserve careful attention by those responsible for the management of the national and local museums and by the area museum councils, to whom they are primarily addressed. They will need to consider what progress can be made, within the resources available to them, in the directions recommended by the working party.