§ Mr. Fauldsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether, further to his written answers to the hon. Member for Warley, East, Official Report, 3 April, c. 165–66 and 16 April, c. 242, he will specify the separate individual amounts of capital transfer tax satisfied by the six paintings from the Newcastle collection which have been accepted for this purpose.
§ Mr. ChannonThe net cost of the six paintings, representing the amount of tax satisfied, is £86,993. The details are as follows:
£ "A Yard of an Inn, with peasants playing bowls", by David Teniers the Younger 31,069 "A Stag Hunt" by Philips Wouverman 17,754 "A Scene in a Flemish Village" by Gillis Peeters and David Teniers the Younger 28,850 A portrait of Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton, then Ninth Earl of Lincoln, by Gainsborough Dupont 3,550 A portrait of the Right Hon. Henry Pelham in Chancellor's Robes, by William Hoare 2,220 A portrait of Thomas Pelham Holies, First Pelham Duke of Newcastle in Garter Robes, by William Hoare 3,550 The figures are provisional, since final computations depend on a number of factors still to be settled.