| Heading: |
Collections: Human Remains |
| Question ID: |
1745663 |
| UIN: |
HL3034 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
147 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Boateng
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Lord Boateng
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the presence of ancestral human remains in the national collections, and what records they keep centrally of the quantity and location of such items. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-11 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4966 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Twycross
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Twycross
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| Answer text: |
No such assessment has been made, and there are no centrally kept records. Museums are independent of government and decisions related to their collections are for their trustees to make.The Human Tissue Act 2004 allows national museums to remove human re... |
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| Answering body ID: |
217 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Culture, Media and Sport |
| Tweeted: |
true |