HL Deb 15 July 1996 vol 574 cc43-5WA
Lord Mason of Barnsley

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What military museums there are in the United Kingdom and how each of them is funded.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Earl Howe)

There are six national Service museums for which the Ministry of Defence is responsible. These are: the Royal Navy Museum, the Royal Marines Museum, The Fleet Air Arm Museum, The Submarine Museum, The National Army Museum and the Royal Air Force Museum. A proportion of their annual funding is provided by a Grant in Aid from MoD funds.

In addition, there are 70 Regimental Museums which receive some annual financial assistance from the appropriate MoD Budget Holder. These are listed in the table below.

There are many other military museums and collections which have some affiliation to Service units and which do not receive any financial assistance from the MoD. There are also many diverse museums and collections specialising in military matters operated by other government departments, local authorities and miscellaneous organisations. There is no central register of such collections and the information could not be provided without disproportionate cost.

Corps and Regimental Museums in receipt of some MoD Funding
Serial Museum Location
1. Household Cavalry Windsor
2. Queen's Dragoon Guards Cardiff
3. Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Edinburgh
4. Royal Dragoon Guards York
5. Royal Dragoon Guards Chester
6. Queen's Royal Hussars Eastbourne
7. Queen's Royal Hussars Warwick
8. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Derby
9. King's Royal Hussars Preston
10. King's Royal Hussars Winchester
11. Light Dragoons Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
12. Light Dragoons Barnsley
13. Queen's Royal Lancers Belvoir Castle
14. Royal Tank Regiment Bovington, Dorset
15. Royal Regiment of Artillery Woolwich
16. Corps of Royal Engineers Chatham
17. Royal Corps of Signals Blandford Forum
18. Foot Guards London
19. Royal Scots Edinburgh
20. Royal Highland Fusiliers Glasgow
21. King's Own Scottish Borderers Berwick-upon-Tweed
22. Black Watch Perth
23. Highlanders Aberdeen
24. Highlanders Fort George, Inverness
25. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Stirling
26. Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Dover
27. Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Winchester
28. Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Guildford
29. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers London
30. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Alnwick
31. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Bury
32. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Warwick
33. Royal Anglian Regiment Bury St. Edmunds
34. Royal Anglian Regiment Chelmsford
35. Royal Anglian Regiment Northampton
36. Royal Anglian Regiment Norwich
37. King's Own Royal Border Regiment Carlisle
38. Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire York

Corps and Regimental Museums in receipt of some MoD Funding
Serial Museum Location
39. Green Howards Richmond, North Yorks
40. Queen's Lancashire Regiment Preston
41. York and Lancaster Regiment Rotherham
42. Devonshire & Dorset Regiments Dorchester
43. Cheshire Regiment Chester
44. Royal Welch Fusiliers Caernarvon
45. Royal Regiment of Wales Cardiff
46. Royal Regiment of Wales Brecon
47. Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment Gloucester
48. Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment Salisbury
49. Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regiment Worcester
50. Worcestershire & Wiltshire Foresters Regiment Nottingham
51. Staffordshire Regiment Lichfield
52. Light Infantry Winchester
53. Light Infantry Bodmin
54. Light Infantry Shrewsbury
55. Royal Green Jackets Winchester
56. Royal Irish Regiment Ballymena, Antrim
57. Royal Irish Regiment Armagh
58. Royal Irish Regiment Belfast
59. Royal Irish Regiment Enniskillen
60. Parachute Regiment Aldershot
61. Gurkhas Winchester
62. Royal Logistic Corps Deepcut/Mychett
63. Royal Army Medical Corps Deepcut/Mychett
64. Royal Army Dental Corps Aldershot
65. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Deepcut/Mychett
66. Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers Arborfield, Reading
67. Army Air Corps Middle Wallop
68. Royal Army Chaplains' Department Bagshot
69. Adjutant General's Corps Chichester
70. Army Physical Training Corps Aldershot