Wedgwood Museum

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch Excerpts

Tuesday 30th November 2010 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Rawlings]

I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Bonham-Carter. It will be ring-fenced. The £1.3 million given to the British Museum is very important. I thank her for that question.

[Baroness Jones of Whitchurch]

My Lords, does the Minister acknowledge the overarching responsibility of the department to preserve for the nation not only the important collection at the Wedgwood museum but those of a number of other specialist and iconic museums, such as the Geffrye museum, the Horniman museum and the Design Museum, which are currently under threat from cuts in her department?

[Baroness Rawlings]

I am aware of these other museums and the issue is being looked into at the moment.