Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask His Majesty's Government when the National Heritage Memorial Fund grant of £800,000 was awarded to the National Trust for ensuring the protection of archaeology at Stonehenge; and when the grant was paid to the National Trust.

The board of the National Heritage Memorial Fund supported the National Trust’s application for a £800,000 grant for the acquisition of 168 hectares of land at Stonehenge, including the land known as Bow Tie Field, at its meeting in February 2020. The grant was paid to the National Trust in two tranches, in September 2020 and March 2021.