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Helen Goodman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2014-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many paintings, artefacts and other objects were lent from the collections of grant-in-aid funded national museums and galleries to regional museums and galleries in each year since 2010-11.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has collected and published the following data about the number of venues in the United Kingdom to which the sponsored national museums have lent objects from their collections.

Number of UK loan venues

Institution

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

British Museum

178

162

169

Imperial War Museum

90

376

104

National Gallery

17

35

35

National Maritime Museum

71

74

81

National Museums Liverpool

193

228

239

Science Museum Group 1

164

185

240

National Portrait Gallery

133

118

118

Natural History Museum

182

131

32

Royal Armouries

107

106

120

Sir John Soane’s Museum

7

3

4

Tate Gallery

153

147

128

Victoria and Albert Museum

241

262

242

Wallace Collection 2

N/A

N/A

N/A

1 From 2011-12, the total includes figures for the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, following its merger with the Science Museum Group.

2 The Wallace Collection cannot lend items under terms of its bequest.