§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if any person associated with the Winston Churchill memorial trust sought to interest him 359W or his predecessor in the possible purchase for the nation of the Churchill papers prior to the acquisition of the papers by the national heritage memorial fund. [29854]
§ Mr. DorrellNeither I nor my predecessor were ever approached with any specific proposal by the Churchill Archive settlement trust to purchase the papers direct.