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Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a highly significant work of art to provide a last chance to raise the money.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Possibly the most beautiful games board in the world is at risk of export
Ed Vaizey issues temporary export bar to help find a UK buyer.
Upper Tribunal Tax and Chancery decision of Mr Justice Morgan on 11 March 2013.
Upper Tribunal Tax and Chancery decision of Mr Justice Mellor and Judge Thomas Scott on 28 January 2022
Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on 'Venice, A View of the Rialto Bridge from the Fondamenta del Carbon'
Theresa May has reappointed Dr Brian Allen to the Board of the National Portrait Gallery for a term of four years, ending on 2 September 2020.
Panel rules ‘Beaching a Boat, Brighton’ by John Constable currently at Tate should be returned to claimants
Employment Tribunal decision.
The Prime Minister has appointed Jonathan Watkins to the Board of the Imperial War Museum.
National treasures worth over £3.7 million were saved from export in the last year and purchased for public collections across the UK
Theresa May has appointed Benjamin Elliot, Steven Murphy, Professor Lynda Nead and Nigel Webb as Trustees at the V&A, for four years, from 1 January 2017.
Ed Vaizey temporarily blocks Van Dyck export
Culture Minister steps in to prevent JMW Turner’s ‘Walton Bridges’, valued at £3.4 million, from export
Culture Minister steps in to prevent painting of Königstein fortress from export
Temporary export bar placed on rare painting by Cézanne
Arts minister steps in to prevent Venetian masterpiece from export.
Arts minister steps in to prevent painting from export.
A valuable painting by one of England’s greatest 20th century artists has been returned to its owners five years after it was stolen from a gallery.
8 ‘National Treasures’ with a total value of £13.85 million saved from export this year
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