Churchill Papers And The Honourable Member For Davyhulme

EDM number 1241 in 1994-95, proposed by Gordon Prentice on 13/06/1995.

That this House notes with grave concern that the National Heritage Memorial Fund has agreed to pay the honourable Member for Davyhulme's family trust over ú12 million for an indeterminate number of, as yet, uncatalogued private papers belonging to the late Sir Winston Churchill on the basis of a confidential valuation provided by antiquarian book sellers, Bernard Quaritch Ltd; and calls on the National Heritage Memorial Fund, that acts as agents of the nation in purchasing the papers, to publish the valuation report and to commission a second opinion on the value of the acquisition.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.