Museums and Galleries

HC Deb 15 July 1996 vol 281 c369W

Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will list the total grants provided by her Department for museums and galleries in(a) Crewe and Nantwich and (b) Cheshire for each of the last five years. [36387]

Mr. Sproat

My Department, through the museums and galleries improvement fund, and the Museums and Galleries Commission—MGC—which is funded by the Department, has awarded the following amounts to museums and galleries in Cheshire over the past five years. The north-west museum service, funded by the MGC, also made awards. They include one of £1,480 to the Nantwich museum in 1993–94.

Grants for museums in Cheshire 1991–92 to 1995–96
	1991–92 £	1992–93 £	1993–84 £	1994–95 £	1995–96 £
Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund	0	37,500	7,500	7,500	25,000
MGC capital grants	0	2,200	0	0	10,000
MGC Victoria and Albert museum purchase grants	13,250	7,500	22,162	12,300	391
PRISM1	1,300	7,700	7,064	3,800	0
North-West Museums Service	44,518	42,101	43,167	36,202	2—
Total	59,068	97,001	79,893	59,802	35,391
1 Preservation of industrial and scientific material.
2—Not yet available.