Collections: British Museum
(asked on 5th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have received representations from foreign governments or other interested parties regarding items in the British Museum’s collections looted from former British colonial possessions in West Africa or Ethiopia in the light of recent concerns over the security of the museum’s collections.
Answered by
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 19th September 2023
His Majesty’s Government has not received any such representations.