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Dept for Culture Media and Sport

Answer

Mr. Leslie: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the allocation of items accepted in lieu of tax made in the financial year (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000. [133355] Mr. Alan Howarth: The information my hon. Friend requests is as follows: Table 1: Allocation of items accepted in lieu of tax made in the financial year 1997-98 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Item To whom allocated Date of allocation Two German drawings, by Martin Schongauer British Museum 9 June 1997 and Jorg Breu the Elder Peacock Gown National Trust for display at Kedleston 9 June 1997 Hall, Derbyshire Torbock Archives Cumbria County Council for retention at 14 June 1997 Cumbria Record Office and Somerset District Council for retention at Somerset Record Office A 17{th} century pair cased alarm striking National Museums and Galleries on 18 June 1997 watch by Edward East Merseyside for display at the Prescot Museum Staffelsee by Wassily Kandinsky Ashmolean Museum 18 June 1997 A Queen Anne walnut longcase clock by Daniel Worshipful Company of Clockmakers Museum 27 August 1997 Quare Throckmorten papers Warwickshire County Council for retention 21 August 1997 at Warwickshire Record Office and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Regency furniture Victoria and Albert Museum (in-situ at 5 November 1997 Longleat House) The Armagnac Manuscript for the Two Trials Victoria and Albert Museum 7 February 1998 of Joan of Arc Portrait of Lord Thurlow by George Romney House of Lords Collection Trust 7 February 1998 Portrait of Mary Leiter by Alexander Cabanel National Trust for display at Kedleston 7 February 1998 Hall, Derbyshire Still Life with an upturned roemer by Willem Norfolk County Council for display at the 7 February 1998 Claez Heda Castle Museum, Norwich Mrs. Leahart and her Children by Arthur Tyne and Weir Joint Museums Committee for 7 February 1998 Hughes display at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle A painting by Aert Van Der Neer Ashmolean Museum 7 February 1998 Macclesfield Silver Victoria and Albert Museum 18 February 1998 Twenty two miniature Iron Age shields British Museum 18 March 1998 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table 2: Allocation of items accepted in lieu of tax made in the financial year 1998-99 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Item To whom allocated Date of allocation The Archive of Lord Clark of Saltwood Tate Gallery 8 April 1998 Simon Bening illumination Victoria and Albert Museum 10 May 1998 A Still Life with flowers and fruit upon a National Trust for display at Dudmaston 7 June 1998 ledge in a park setting by Jan van Huysum The Cobbold Family portrait by Thomas The Gainsborough House Society 9 June 1998 Gainsborough Four paintings by Pierre Bonnard, Amedeo Fitzwilliam Museum 15 June 1998 Modigliani and Claude Monet Hawkins family Archive Cornwall County Council for retention at 22 June 1998 the Cornwall County Record Office The Sherborne Missal British Library 30 June 1998 An ormolu and enamel automaton clock by Leeds City Council for display at Temple 15 September 1998 Thomas Weekes Newsam House A collection of works from Clevedon Court, National Trust for display at Clevedon 2 October 1998 North Somerset Court Two paintings by Charles de Lafosse National Trust for display at Basildon 5 November 1998 Park, Berkshire Kay-Shuttleworth papers National Trust for retention at Lancashire 2 February 1999 Records Office Furniture from Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire National Trust for display at Gawthorpe 4 February 1999 Hall A View of the European Factories at Canton National Maritime Museum 19 February 1999 by William Daniel Needlework Casket Victoria and Albert Museum 8 March 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table 3: Allocation of items accepted in lieu of tax made in the financial year 1999-2000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Item To whom allocated Date of allocation A pair of Delft cream Pans made by Adrianus Historic Royal Palaces 4 May 1999 Kocks Portrait of David Garrick by Johann Zoffany Ashmolean Museum 10 May 1999 and Le Manchot by David Teniers the Younger Saint Teresa's Vision of a Dove by Sir Peter Fitzwilliam Museum 17 June 1999 Paul Rubens Portrait of Cesare Alessandro Scaglia, Abbe National Gallery 7 September 1999 of Stafforda and Mandanici, 1634 by Sir Anthony Van Dyke The Temple of Poseidon at Sunium (Cape Tate Gallery 28 September 1999 Colonna) by Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with Phaeton's Petition to Apollo National Museums and Galleries on 28 September 1999 by Richard Wilson Merseyside for display at the Walker Art Gallery The Powis Archive Shropshire County Council for retention at 29 September 1999 Shropshire Records and Research Centre Shuttleworth family and estate papers Lancashire County Council for retention at 28 October 1999 Lancashire Record Office Composition B with Red by Piet Mondrian Tate Gallery 5 November 1999 An equirotal cab-phaeton Museum of London 20 November 1999 Master of the Rolls ceremonial robe of circa Permanent Exhibition of the History of 3 December 1999 1784 Legal Robes and Costumes for display at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, London The Ballad Seller by Henry Walton Tate Gallery 3 December 1999 Two portraits of Admiral and Mrs. Bligh by The Captain Cook Memorial Museum 22 December 1999 John Russell A Charles II studded leather coffer Leeds City Council for display at Temple 13 December 1999 Newsam House Manuscript by John Bellemain British Library 22 January 2000 The papers of Sir Henry Page Croft Churchill College, Cambridge 28 February 2000 A group of medals awarded to Colonel Mark Royal Engineers Museum 6 March 2000 Sever Bell _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

354 c650-4W;354 c650-3W; 133355

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Artworks Objects in lieu of tax

Link

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