Services Museums (Hansard, 29 July 1997)

§ Mr. Colvin
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of the services museums are housed in his Department's properties. [10752]
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§ Dr. Reid
The following 33 regimental and corps museums are located on Ministry of Defence property:

Royal Dragoon Guards

King's Royal Hussars (Winchester)

Royal Armoured Corps and Royal Tank Regiment

Royal Regiment of Artillery

Corps of Royal Engineers

Royal Corps of Signals

Foot Guards

Royal Highland Fusiliers

Black Watch

Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Winchester)

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Bury)

Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire

Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

Cheshire Regiment

Royal Regiment of Wales (Brecon)

Royal Gloucester, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (Gloucester)

Staffordshire Regiment

Light Infantry (Winchester and Bodmin)

Royal Irish Regiment (Ballymena and Armagh)

Royal Green Jackets

Parachute Regiment

Gurkhas

Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Dental Corps

Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps

Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Royal Army Chaplains Department

Adjutant General's Corps (Royal Military Police)

Army Physical Training Corps

Household Cavalry

Royal Logistic Corps.

§ Mr. Colvin
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on his Department's continued funding for services museums. [10748]

§ Dr. Reid
My Department is acutely aware of the need to maintain a network of regimental and corps museums as instruments for projecting a positive image of the Army to the public and to underpin the Army's esprit de corps. An Army museums panel has recently been constituted whose responsibilities include reviewing the allocation of public funds that are applied to the operation of these museums.