Defence written question – answered at on 2 April 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence to which military museums the Department makes grants; and how much the grant for each was in each year since 1997.
The information is as follows:
Gran t in aid | ||||||||||||
£ million | ||||||||||||
1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08( 1) | |
Royal Naval Museum | 0.62 | 0.82 | 0.75 | 0.83 | 0.94 | 0.88 | 0.88 | 0.96 | 1.14 | 1.03 | 0.90 | 0.87 |
Fleet Air Arm Museum | 0.40 | 0.42 | 0.56 | 0.5 | 0.51 | 0.53 | 0.53 | 0.55 | 0.56 | 0.58 | 0.59 | 0.61 |
Royal Navy Submarine Museum | 0.28 | 0.32 | 0.37 | 0.53 | 0.44 | 0.49 | 0.49 | 0.51 | 0.65 | 0.55 | 0.56 | 0.58 |
Royal Marines Museum | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.66 | 0.58 | 0.62 | 0.66 | 0.65 | 0.69 | 0.70 | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.77 |
National Army Museum | 3.40 | 3.49 | 3.33 | 4.13 | 4.21 | 4.77 | 4.86 | 5.52 | 5.24 | 4.95 | 5.37 | 5.50 |
Royal Air Force Museum | 3.14 | 4.06 | 4.98 | 3.8 | 4.82 | 5.99 | 6.06 | 6.81 | 7.03 | 7.10 | 6.77 | 7.02 |
(1) Estimate |
In addition there are a number of regimental museums which have their costs paid direct by the Department.
Yes2 people think so
No2 people think not
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