Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Jeremy Hunt (Conservative), on Thursday, 8 November 2007, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 27 members in total.

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HERITAGE COUNTS REPORT

That this House welcomes the publication of the English Heritage report Heritage Counts 2007, the sixth annual survey of England's heritage; congratulates English Heritage for its work in maintaining and promoting the United Kingdom's historic environment; notes that Great Britain's heritage assets continue to be recognised with an increase in the number of both UNESCO World Heritage Sites, listed buildings and landscapes in designated protection schemes; welcomes the reduction in Grade I and II* buildings under threat; acknowledges the huge contribution heritage makes to tourism in the United Kingdom with 70 per cent. of adults and 2.5 million school children visiting the historic environment last year; and deplores the Government's neglect of Britain's heritage as illustrated by the raid on the Heritage Lottery Fund's allocation to support ministerial projects, thus reducing heritage fund expenditure from ??327 million in 1997-98 to ??200 million in 2006-07.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

167 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Simon Burns

Hugh Robertson

Tobias Ellwood

Lord Vaizey of Didcot

Subjects

Cultural heritage Leisure National Lottery Tourism

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk