To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the (a) actual and (b) percentage change was in the Government funding of regimental museums between 1997–98 and 1998–99. [7113]
We have advised museum trustees that there will be an overall reduction of 12.7 per cent. in the contribution the Ministry of Defence makes to the funding of regimental and corps museums from April 1998. At current prices, this will mean that the 65 regimental and corps museums in mainland Britain will be required to share a reduction of £138,466 per annum from that date.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the regimental museums currently maintained out of public funds. [7112]
The Ministry of Defence contributes some funding to 69 regimental and corps museums. They are listed below:
| Museum | Location |
| Queen's Dragoon Guards | Cardiff |
| Royal Scots Dragoon Guards | Edinburgh |
| Royal Dragoon Guards | York |
| Queen's Royal Hussars | Eastboume |
| Warwick | |
| 9th/12th Royal Lancers | Derby |
| King's Royal Hussars | Preston |
| Light Dragoons | Newcastle upon |
| Tyne | |
| Queen's Royal Lancers | Belvoir Castle |
| Royal Armoured Corps and Royal Tank Regiment | Bovington |
| Royal Regiment of Artillery | Woolwich |
| Corps of Royal Engineers | Chatham |
| Royal Corps of Signals | Blandford |
| Foot Guards | London |
| Royal Scots | Edinburgh |
| Royal Highland Fusiliers | Glasgow |
| King's Own Scottish Borderers | Berwick upon |
| Tweed | |
| Black Watch | Perth |
| Highlanders | Aberdeen |
| Fort George | |
| Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment | Dover |
| Winchester | |
| Guildford | |
| Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | Alnwick |
| Warwick | |
| Royal Anglian Regiment | Bury St. Edmunds |
| Norwich | |
| King's Own Royal Border Regiment | Carlisle |
| Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire | York |
| Green Howards | Richmond |
| York and Lancaster Regiment | Rotherham |
| Devonshire and Dorset Regiment | Dorchester |
| Cheshire Regiment | Chester |
| Royal Welch Fusiliers | Caernarfon |
| Royal Regiment of Wales | Cardiff |
| Brecon | |
| Royal Gloucester, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment | Gloucester |
| Salisbury | |
| Worcester and Sherwood Foresters Regiment | Worcester |
| Nottingham | |
| Staffordshire Regiment | Lichfield |
| Light Infantry | Winchester |
| Bodmin | |
| Shrewsbury | |
| Royal Green Jackets | Winchester |
Museum
| Location
|
| Royal Irish Regiment | Enniskillen |
| Parachute Regiment | Aldershot |
| Gurkhas | Winchester |
| Royal Army Medical Corps | Aldershot |
| Royal Army Dental Corps | Aldershot |
| Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps | Aldershot |
| Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | Arborfield |
| Army Air Corps | Middle Wallop |
| Royal Army Chaplains' Department | 1Upavon |
| Adjutant General's Corps (Royal Military Police) | Chichester |
| Army Physical Training Corps | Aldershot |
| Household Cavalry | Windsor |
| King's Royal Hussars | Winchester |
| Light Dragoons | Barnsley |
| Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders | Stirling |
| Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | London |
| Bury | |
| Royal Anglian Regiment | Chelmsford |
| Northampton | |
| Queen's Lancashire Regiment | Preston |
| Royal Irish Regiment | Ballymena |
| Armagh | |
| Royal Logistic Corps | Camberley |
| Royal Irish Regiment | Belfast |
1 The Chaplains' Department Museum is currently in store at Upavon and closed to the public awaiting transfer to Netheravon. | |