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Dept for Culture Media and Sport

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Maria Eagle: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the allocations of items accepted in lieu of inheritance tax, made in the financial year 2000-01 under sections 9(3) and (4) of the National Heritage Act 1980. [160256] Mr. Alan Howarth: The information that my hon. Friend requests is as follows: Allocations made under National Heritage Act 9(3) of items accepted in lieu of tax in the financial year 2000-01--permanent allocations _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Item To whom permanently allocated Paintings by Jan Steen, Aelbert Cuyp and Adriaen van Ostade The National Trust for display at Waddesdon Manor and Ascott A collection of mostly 18{th} and 19{th} century architectural Victoria and Albert Museum drawings A pair of rococo silver candelabra and a 17{th} century silver Victoria and Albert Museum tankard A group of Limoges Renaissance enamels The National Trust for display at Waddesdon Manor Paintings by Jan van Goyen National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (Walker Art Gallery) Five sculptures by Barbara Hepworth Fitzwilliam Museum (three on display at Snape, Suffolk and one at Churchill College) A silver-gilt William and Mary communion set Winchester Cathedral Two paintings by William Gear Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Four portraits of the Meynell family by Francis Grant and John Temple Newsam House, Leeds Hoppner Two Longton Hall `Snowman' figures Stoke on Trent, Potteries Museum Cimabue: Virgin and Child Enthroned National Gallery Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Portrait of an Unknown Woman Tate The Dacre Beasts Victoria and Albert Museum Henry Moore: Mother and Child Leeds City Art Gallery William Gomm Library Furniture Stoneleigh Abbey Preservation Trust Richard Wilson: Landscape National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (Walker Art Gallery) George Romney: Viscountess Bulkeley as Hebe National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff Thomas Jones: Landscape National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Allocations made under National Heritage Act 9(4) of items accepted in lieu of tax in the financial year 2000-01--temporary allocations (and not yet superseded by a permanent direction) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Item To whom temporarily allocated Chippendale and Adam Chairs National Gallery of Scotland for Duff House The archive of Sir Ernest Makins and Baron Sherfield Bodleian Library, Oxford University Three mediaeval books The National Library of Scotland Walter Smith: The Wydow Edith (1525) British Library The Wentworth Muniments Sheffield Record Office and North Yorkshire Record Office A 14{th} century ivory mirror back Victoria and Albert Museum John Crome: Fishmarket at Boulogne Norwich, The Castle Museum Metsu: Lady at a Spinet English Heritage for display at Kenwood Tinteretto: Portrait of an Unknown Man Leighton House, Kensington George Stubbs: Lord Rockingham's Arab Stallion National Gallery of Scotland George Ehret: Deliciae Botanicae National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside Hendrick Goltzius: Drawing National Gallery of Scotland Three mediaeval books National Library of Scotland A collection of 18{th} century Scottish silver National Museum of Scotland A Norwegian 14{th} century ivory crozier head Victoria and Albert Museum Land at Ham Hill, Somerset South Somerset District Council _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

160256; 367 c658-60W;367 c658-9W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Gifts and endowments Inheritance tax Tax allowances Taxation

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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