§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what plans her Department has to provide long-term support to the network of finds liaison officers to be established under the Portable Antiquities Scheme after April 2006. [107845]
§ Dr. Howells[holding answer 8 April 2003]DCMS is giving active consideration to the question of long-term sustainability of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. We will consider sympathetically the Scheme's future funding requirements in the course of the normal Spending Review process, as part of our analysis of all our resource needs.