Museums and Galleries

HC Deb 10 February 1993 vol 218 cc657-8W

Mr. Alan Howarth

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if he will list the cost per visitor for each museum and gallery in receipt of funding deriving from his Department.

Mr. Key

The estimated cost per visitor is as follows, taken to one decimal place for figures for the grant-in-aid and number of visitors:

	Grant-in-aid (financial year 1992–93) £ million	No. of visitors (1992) million	Cost per visitor £
British Museum	32.4	6.7	4.84
Natural History Museum	28.9	1.6	18.1
Imperial War Museum	11.0	1.1	10.0
National Gallery	17.9	4.3	4.20
National Maritime Museum	11.6	0.5	23.20
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside	13.4	1.2	11.20
National Portrait Gallery	5.6	0.8	7.00
Science Museum	22.4	2.6	8.62
Tate Gallery	16.6	2.2	7.55
Victoria and Albert Museum	30.1	1.5	20.07
Wallace Collection	1.9	0.2	9.50
Manchester Museum of Science and Industry	2.2	0.3	7.33
Museum of London	4.1	0.3	13.70
Sir John Soane's Museum	0.6	0.04	15.00
Geffrye Museum	0.9	0.05	18.00
Horniman Museum	2.6	0.2	13.00