Question follow-through · 47850
Cultural Heritage: Export Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications for export licences for objects of cultural interest were (a) received and (b) granted in each month of the past 5 years; and what was the total value of these items.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications for export licences for objects of cultural interest were (a) received and (b) granted in each month of the past 5 years; and what was the total value of these items.
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Export Licensing Unit, run by Arts Council England, received a total number of 27,501 applications for export licenses for objects of cultural interest from May 2020-April 2025, a monthly average of 466. The total number of granted applications was 25...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Cultural Heritage: Export Controls
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