Freedom of information response
Works of art owned by your local authority.
1. The total number of works of art owned by your local authority.
2. The estimated total value.
3. The number of works currently on display.
4. How many works of art have been donated by the local authority over the past five years?
5. How many works of art have been leased by the local authority over the past five years and the total revenue.
6. How many works of art have been sold by the local authority over the past five years and the total proceeds from any sales.
7. The cost to the local authority of maintaining your art collection for the financial year 2022/23. Please include any costs for security, conservation and insurance
1. The total number of works of art owned by your local authority.
Unfortunately, this cannot be answered within FOI time allocation, please see explanation below.
2. The estimated total value.
Unfortunately, this cannot be answered within FOI time allocation, please see explanation below.
3. The number of works currently on display.
5
4. How many works of art have been donated by the local authority over the past five years?
None from the Museum
5. How many works of art have been leased by the local authority over the past five years and the total revenue.
None have been leased from the Museum
6. How many works of art have been sold by the local authority over the past five years and the total proceeds from any sales.
None from the Museum
7. The cost to the local authority of maintaining your art collection for the financial year 2022/23. Please include any costs for security, conservation and insurance.
Unfortunately, this cannot be answered within FOI time allocation, please see explanation below.
In issuing our response the council have applied S12 of the Freedom of Information Act.
This means that the council does not have to comply with your request if the cost of doing so exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’, which for local authorities is 18 hours. This applies to the time taken spent locating and collating the requested information.
It is estimated that we have 20,000 to 30,000 items in our collection, some of which will fall under the category of ‘works of art’. We have completed around 50% of a project to inventory our collection, therefore we do not have accurate information about the total number of artefacts we have. The project is ongoing and will take several more months to complete. Even once the inventory has been completed we may not necessarily have fully identified which items would be classified as ‘works of art’.
If you wish to narrow the scope of your request and resubmit this to the council then of course we may be able to provide this information.