Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 May 1947.
Sir John Mellor
, Sutton Coldfield
12:00,
13 May 1947
As the National Gallery is constituted by Treasury Minute and as the expenses of the Gallery are provided by Parliament, is it not appropriate that the Treasury should take notice of the great public interest in the cleaning of the pictures, as illustrated by the correspondence in "The Times" last November?