QUEEN'S DIAMOND WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AND THE TURNER BEQUEST

EDM number 217 in 2007-08, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 13/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Arts and Cultural heritage.

That this House is concerned that the Trustees of the National Gallery continue to disregard JMW Turner's intentions for his first art bequest to the nation; points out that the consequence is to deprive the people of Great Britain of the opportunity to see this bequest as what it could be; a popular tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II on her Diamond Wedding Anniversary as champion of humanity's progress in peace; and therefore calls on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to require the National Gallery to display this crown jewel of Turner's output properly for HM the Queen's Anniversary and to review and reform the Trustee system of the National Gallery to make it answerable to the British people who own the art therein.

This motion has been signed by a total of 8 MPs.