Regional Museums

Earl of Clancarty Excerpts
Monday 25th April 2016

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl of Courtown Portrait The Earl of Courtown
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I beg your pardon; I thought that the right reverend Prelate referred to Manchester. I think that the right reverend Prelate was referring to the Royal Photographic Society collection, some of which has now been moved to London. That move has provided far better access to the collection because the Victoria and Albert Museum has committed to digitising the collection and thus make it more widely available.

Earl of Clancarty Portrait The Earl of Clancarty (CB)
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My Lords, do the Government have any plans to start reversing the cuts to local authority funding, because that is the root cause of the problem?

Earl of Courtown Portrait The Earl of Courtown
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The noble Earl has made his view on any form of cuts very clear in the past, and of course I do not agree with him. This is why we are having a review into museums in The Culture White Paper.