Department for Culture Media and Sport written question – answered on 2 March 2015.
Lord Sharkey
Liberal Democrat
To ask Her Majesty’s Government who had ultimate responsibility for the granting of an export licence to the 1942 Alan Turing notebook to be auctioned in New York by Bonhams on 13 April; why that licence was unconditional; and which experts were consulted in making that determination.
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
Lords Spokesperson (Department for Culture, Media and Sport), Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Under UK export licensing procedures, archives produced more than 50 years before the date of export, require an export licence. An export licence for Alan Turing’s notebook was issued by the Export Licensing Unit of the Arts Council, on behalf of the Secretary of State, on 29 July 2014, having first obtained expert advice on its national importance. It is not Departmental practice to release the names of expert advisers.
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