§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what help is being offered by her Department to the British Museum to clear its deficit. [75530]
§ Dr. Howells[holding answer 21 October 2002]: To avoid a deficit the British Museum is carrying out a programme of reform and modernisation. We fully support the Museum in this endeavour and we have made arrangements to enable the Museum to fund this programme from the resources available to it.
§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many of the artifacts and collections in the British Museum were maintained at the right environmental condition in(a) 1998–99, (b) 1999–2000, (c) 2000–01, (d) 2001–02 and (e) 2002–03 to date. [76601]
§ Dr. HowellsThe information is shown in the following table.
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