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Mr. Faulds
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the sums paid to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue from the national land fund during the year ended 31 March, comprising the total for that financial year and a detailed breakdown in respect of the individual transactions concerned.
Mr. Peter Rees
[pursuant to his reply, 2 April 1980, c. 248]: During 1979–80 the sum of £2,585,210 was paid to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue from the national land fund made up as follows:
| £ | |
| Paintings by Rubens and Bellini and a drawing by Martini | 190,230 |
| A Collection of Goya etchings | 185,000 |
| Representative items of Chinese armorial porcelain | 1,670 |
| Painting "A Frozen River Scene" by Aert Van der Neer | 71,070 |
| Painting "The Battle of Pavia" by an unknown Italian painter | 16,500 |
| Garter regalia of the 1st Earl of Northampton | 151,400 |
| Land in the Lake District | 448,000 |
| The manuscripts of Benjamin Britten | 190,000 |
| A group of five portraits from Arundel Castle | 140,286 |
| 15 Paintings by Sir Winston Churchill and a flag | 57,475 |
| Painting "Death of Procris" by Elsheimer | 52,375 |
| Two paintings by Alfred Sisley | 71,162 |
| A painting "St. Tropez" by Renoir | 53,065 |
| Michelangelo drawings for "The Last Judgement" | 98,970 |
| The late Henry W. Williamson's collection of manuscripts | 13,800 |
| A collection of silver, silver-gilt and gold heirlooms | 133,430 |
| Seven illuminated manuscripts of the eleventh to fifteenth centuries | 248,680 |
| A drawing " Study of a Young Man " by Luca Signorelli | 52,250 |
| A collection of Hebrew manuscripts | 331,597 |
| The property "Labour in Vain" Farm, Puncknowle, Dorset | 78,250 |