HC Deb 19 March 1997 vol 292 c666W
Mr. Faulds

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the attendance figures for 1996 reported by the national museums and galleries in Scotland, broken down to the individual institutions but including their outstations, with figures in each case of the percentage increase or decrease on the attendance figures for 1995. [20113]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information is as follows:

1996 Percentage change since 1995
National Museums of Scotland 1,178,944 +5.8
National Galleries of Scotland 990,888 +9.9

Figures for the national museums of Scotland relate to the royal museum of Scotland, the museum of antiquities, the Scottish agricultural museum, the Scottish united services museum, the museum of flight, the museum of costume and the gasworks museum. The national galleries of Scotland figures relate to the national gallery of Scotland, the Scottish national portrait gallery, the Scottish national gallery of modern art, national galleries of Scotland exhibitions held in the royal Scottish academy, Duff house in Banff and, for the first time, Paxton house, Berwick.