National Army Museum

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will request the National Army Museum (NAM) to give to all of the Regimental and Corps Museums funded by his Department (a) all reasonable access to and (b) capacity to copy any record document deposited within NAM that relates to that Regiment or Corps; and if he will make a statement; (187258)

(2) if he will place in the Library a copy of the National Army Museum's access policy; what the Museum's systems and procedures are for dealing with (a) other military, Regimental and Corps museums wholly or partly funded by the Ministry of Defence, (b) other museums, (c) historians, researchers, authors and journalists and (d) members of the public; and if he will make a statement.

I will write to my hon. Friend.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what funds his Department made available to the National Army Museum in each of the last 10 years; and how much other public funding it received. (187259)

The grant in aid for the National Army Museum over the last 10 years is as follows:

	£
1997-98	3,491,978
1998-99	3,331,047
1999-2000	4,129,563
2000-01	4,209,171
2001-02	4,771,935
2002-03	4,859,557
2003-04	5,516,730
2004-05	5,242,228
2005-06	4,948,258
2006-07	5,362,148

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008