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Hereford Bye Street Gate Sculptures

Volume 113: debated on Monday 30 March 1987

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asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will set out in the Official Report the evidence which has been submitted to the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art to sustain the claim that the Hereford Bye Street Gate sculptures have been exported and re-imported to the United Kingdom in the last 50 years.

[pursuant to his reply, 27 March 1987, c. 298]: No such evidence was submitted to the reviewing committee. A report of the committee's consideration in March 1986 is to be found on page 26 of the thirty second report of the reviewing committee (CM44) presented to Parliament by the Minister for the Arts in December 1986.

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make it his policy to identify the intending purchasers of objects which are the subject of consideration by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art.