Proceeding contribution from Robert Key (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 25 January 2007. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Heritage.

Heritage

My hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire will recall that back in the 1980s and the early 1990s in our party it was not the done thing to refer to culture. As the founding Minister with David Mellor in the Department of National Heritage, I can tell my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham why heritage was lumped in with all the other things. It was simply that the Government decided—or rather, John Major decided—that we should have a Department of culture, but agreed that we were not allowed to call it so. That was why heritage ended up with the other bits that now make up DCMS.

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Type: Proceeding contribution
Reference: 455 c558WH
Session: 2006-07
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Subjects: Cultural heritage Churches Cathedrals Finance Historic buildings English Heritage Libraries Local government Olympic Games Museums and galleries Listed buildings VAT Wrecks Tourism Department for Culture, Media and Sport Heritage Lottery Fund World Heritage sites
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Heritage

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