§ Mr. Cyril D. Townsendasked the Minister for the Arts if any further items have been accepted in lieu of tax in the year ended 31 March 1987.
§ Mr. LuceI am pleased to announce that a further three items have been accepted in lieu of tax:
Item Amount of tax satisfied £ Sidereal clock by Matthew Boulton 440,000 'Portrait of a Girl on a Sofa' by Philip Wilson Steer 55,000 A painting by Giacometti, and two drawings by Cezanne and Toulouse-Lautrec 206,250 The acceptance of the sidereal clock by Matthew Boulton has been allowed by the provision of extra funds from the Contingency Reserve, to which I referred in an earlier reply on 19 February, at column 737, together with resources from the annual AIL Vote.
Allocation of the above items will be announced in due course.
I am also pleased to announce that the Portland archive, acceptance of which. I notified to the House on 25 March 1986, at columns 427–28, has been allocated in accordance with the wishes of the executors to the following five institutions: Bodleian library, Oxford; British library; Hampshire record office; Nottinghamshire record office; and Nottingham university library.