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Dear House of Commons,

Please could I be supplied with a list of all works of art in the collection classified as ‘missing’ by the House authorities.

Could I also be told whether the artworks are regarded as lost or stolen.
Yours faithfully,

mark spaven

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Dear Mr Spaven,

 

Freedom of Information request F20-294

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 24 June 2020, received by
us on the same date, which is copied below.

 

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From: m.spaven <[FOI #672293 email]>
Sent: 24 June 2020 13:04
To: FOI Commons <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Please can you tell

 

Dear House of Commons,

Please could I be supplied with a list of all works of art in the
collection classified as ‘missing’ by the House authorities.

Could I also be told whether the artworks are regarded as lost or stolen.
Yours faithfully,

mark spaven

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Dear Mr Spaven,

 

Freedom of Information Request F20-294

 

Thank you for your request for information as copied below. You asked for
a list of all works of art in the collection classified as ‘missing’ by
the House authorities. You also asked if we could inform you whether the
artworks are regarded as lost or stolen.

 

Some information is held by the House of Commons. The Parliamentary Art
Collection has 222 works of art recorded on the collection database as
‘missing’. A list of these works is attached, as requested. However, an
indication of whether these pieces are considered either lost or stolen is
not held by the House.

The tag of ‘missing’ is one that was used in the 1980s on a less reliable
database to identify ‘problem’ inventory records, including duplicate
records. It does not necessarily mean that these works from the Collection
have been lost or stolen. We now use a Museum standard database and have
succeeded in resolving many of the inherited anomalies, however
identifying them is a labour-intensive process. The Restoration and
Renewal programme is an important opportunity for the Parliamentary Art
Collection to be reviewed in detail so that historic cataloguing errors
can be resolved and good documentation practice going forward can be
ensured, the initial re-auditing work, which is the first step on
resolving the anomalies, has now commenced.

 

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From: m.spaven <[6][FOI #672293 email]>
Sent: 24 June 2020 13:04
To: FOI Commons <[7][email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Please can you tell

 

Dear House of Commons,

Please could I be supplied with a list of all works of art in the
collection classified as ‘missing’ by the House authorities.

Could I also be told whether the artworks are regarded as lost or stolen.
Yours faithfully,

mark spaven

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