To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the allocations made to public institutions in the United Kingdom during the half year ended 30 June of individual works of art and museum objects pre-eminent for national, scientific, historic or artistic interest which have been accepted in satisfaction of inheritance tax, together with information, where applicable, as to conditions or wishes expressed by testators or executors in the matter of allocation; and if he will list the works of art and museum objects which are still awaiting allocation with the respective dates of their acceptance in satisfaction of inheritance tax. [8978]
[holding answer 21 July 1997]: The information which the hon. Member requests is as follows:
| Item(s) | To whom allocated | Conditions/wishes expressed |
| Landscape with Lord Coventry on a Blue Roan Horse and Deer, Hounds and Attendants and a Dead Stag (painting) by John Wootton | The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (for display at Antony House, Cornwall) | Conditional offer |
| Still Life with an upturned roemer (painting) by Willem Claez. Heda | Norfolk County Council (for display at the Castle Museum, Norwich) | Wish as to allocation |
| Two German Drawings: one by Martin Schongauer and one by Jörg Breu the Elder | Board of Trustees of the British Museum | Conditional offer |
| The House of Worth Peacock Gown | The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (for display at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire) | Conditional offer |
Item(s)
| To whom allocated
| Conditions/wishes expressed
|
| Two archives of documents relating to estates in Cumbria and Somerst | Cumbria County Council (for retention at the Cumbria Record Office) and Somerset County Council (for retention at the Somerset Record Office | Wish as to allocation |
| A Seventeenth century pair cased alarm striking clock watch by Edward East | Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (for display at the Prescot Museum of Clock and Watch Making, Prescot) | Unconditional offer |
Staffelsee (painting) by Wassily Kandinsky | Chancellors, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford (for display at the Ashmolean Museum) | Wish as to allocation |
Items awaiting allocation
| Date of acceptance
|
| Library Furniture by William Gomm | 19 January 1994 |
Christ Brought before Pontius Pilate (painting) by Luca Cambiaso | 25 January 1996 |
| 18th-century French furniture | 28 March 1996 |
Stepping Stones on the Wharfe (painting) by Thomas Girtin | 27 August 1996 |
| A Queen Anne year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare | 5 December 1996 |
| A portrait of Lord Thurlow by George Romney | 21 March 1997 |