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UNESCO Convention on Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the cultural effects of ratification of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. (220612)

The UK Government have already adopted the Annex of the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage as best practice for archaeology. Although we keep the matter under review. We do not believe that the case for ratification by the UK has been made.