Dr Matthew Offord – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dr Matthew Offord on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to protect cultural heritage abroad.

Mr Edward Vaizey

Government is committed to the protection of Cultural Heritage abroad.A £3m Iraqi Emergency Heritage Management Project – run by the British Museum over five years – will create a team of local experts to assess, document and stabilise afflicted sites in Iraq, and help begin the process of reconstruction and preservation of some of the world’s most precious culturalheritage. The Culture Secretary has also reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to ratifying the Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict – with a plan to get it onto the statute books at the first opportunity. This isthe firstpart of a comprehensive Government plan to rescue ancient sites and objects from destruction by terrorists, wars or natural disasters across the world.