Attorney General written question – answered am ar 17 Ionawr 2025.
Nick Timothy
Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons)
To ask the Solicitor General, whether she plans to decolonise the (a) artwork and (b) heritage assets in (i) the Attorney General's Office and (ii) each of its arm’s length bodies.
Lucy Rigby
The Solicitor-General
There has been no change in the Attorney General’s Office’s management of artwork or heritage assets since the previous administration.
As separate entities, the responsibility for creating policy and guidance for artwork sits with each individual Arm’s Length Body, rather than with the ministerial department.
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No0 people think not
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