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	answer has question	YpiQXyVj
	answer has answering person	Estelle Morris
	answer text	Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will prevent further loans of cultural artefactsto Australia in the light of the seizing of Aboriginal etchings recently on loan to that country from the UK. [189149]Estelle Morris: Decisions on whether or not to loan objects in museum collections are matters for the institution concerned, and theGovernment has no power to influence this decision. In making any decisions concerning loans of objects overseas, Trustees wouldobviously want to consider the particular circumstances of the countries to which the items would be sent. The government will takeinto account the risk that any item will not be returned to this country before granting any application for an export licence inrelation to an item which a museum proposes to lend overseas.
	answer given date	2004-09-16
	answer has answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	written answer has answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has written answer	o3GvFWjN
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has answer	o3GvFWjN
YpiQXyVj	question has answer	o3GvFWjN
Estelle Morris	answering person has answer	o3GvFWjN