§ Sir Albert Costainasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, in the light of the recent report of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art, how many owners who have been licensed to export a work of art on a temporary basis have failed to return the item to the United Kingdom by the expected date and have refused to give an undertaking not to sell or otherwise dispose of it while it is abroad.
§ Mr. ChannonThere has been one such case, that of a painting of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart in 343W relation to which Lord Rosebery has not given the undertaking for which he has been asked. The painting was granted a temporary export licence in 1968. The temporary export licence expired in 1969 and later was given an extension of nine months during which the painting could remain on exhibition. I understand the picture is still in the United States.