Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department plans to permit the (a) Maritime Heritage Foundation and (b) Odyssey Marine Exploration, to sell material recovered from the wreck site of HMS Victory 1744.

Clause 2 of the Deed of Gift prevents the Maritime Heritage Foundation (MHF) from selling, giving or otherwise disposing of anything transferred under the Deed without the express consent of the Secretary of State for Defence.