{"value":{"id":1660002,"askingMemberId":547,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2023-09-12T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2023-09-26T00:00:00","uin":"HL10112","questionText":"To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to have discussions with senior staff at the British Museum about returning the Mold Gold Cape to Wales.","answeringBodyId":217,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Culture, Media and Sport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4728,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2023-10-17T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The British Museum operates independently of His Majesty's Government, and decisions relating to the care and management of its collections are a matter for the Museum’s trustees.</p><p>The British Museum, as well as some other national museums, is prevented by law from removing objects from its collections, with a limited number of exceptions, none of which apply in this case. The Government has no plan to change the law.</p><p>As the former Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, recounts in his A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010), it is thanks to the work of the British Museum over more than a century that so many fragments of the Mold Gold Cape have been reunited, following their dispersal shortly after it was discovered at Bryn-yr-Ellyllon in 1833.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"British Museum: Wales","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1660002","method":"GET"}]}