| Heading: |
Cultural Heritage: Export Controls |
| Question ID: |
1797064 |
| UIN: |
47850 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4874 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andrew Griffith
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| Asking Member handle: |
griffitha
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@griffitha
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications for export licences for objects of cultural interest were (a) received and (b) granted in each month of the past 5 years; and what was the total value of these items. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1446 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Chris Bryant
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Chris Bryant
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| Answer text: |
The Export Licensing Unit, run by Arts Council England, received a total number of 27,501 applications for export licenses for objects of cultural interest from May 2020-April 2025, a monthly average of 466. The total number of granted applications was 25... |
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| Answering body ID: |
217 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Culture, Media and Sport |
| Tweeted: |
true |