§ Lord Freybergasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether there was a shortfall in the estimated number of paying visitors to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds in the first six months of its operation, and, if so, how great was this shortfall.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of National Heritage, (Lord Inglewood)I understand that visitor figures for the first nine months of operation of the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds will be released by the commercial partner, Royal Armouries International plc, at the end of its current financial year, December 1996.
§ Lord Freybergasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether funds set aside for purchasing items for the new Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds have been transferred to any part of the administration of the museum.
§ Lord InglewoodI understand that the Board of Trustees of the Royal Armouries agreed in April 1994 to transfer £100,000 from its collection acquisitions budget for the marketing of the new museum in Leeds in the financial years 1995–96 and 1996–97.