§ Mr. Fauldsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will publish in the Official Report the attendance figures for 1985 reported by the national museums and galleries in Scotland, broken down to the individual institutions but comprising their outstations, with figures in each case of the percentage increase or decrease on the attendance figures for 1984.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe information is as follows:
1985 Percentage change Since 1984 National galleries of Scotland (NGS) 538,137 +14.7 National museums of Scotland (NMS) 709,509 *-17–2 *The 1985 figure for the NMS is compared with the aggregate 1984 figure for the RSM and the NMAS.
The NGS comprise the National gallery of Scotland, the Scottish national gallery of modern art and the Scottish national portrait gallery (SNPG). The NMS are the Royal museum of Scotland (formerly known as the Royal Scottish museum (RSM) and the national museum of antiquities of Scotland (NMAS)), the Scottish agricultural museum, the Scottish united services museum, the museum of flight and the Shambellie museum of costume.
205WAttendances to the Findlay building, Queen street, which houses both the SNPG and part of the RMS, have been credited in full to both institutions. This represents a change of practice from previous years, of which account has been taken in calculating the percentage changes from 1984.