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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government takes to help preserve and protect historical artefacts around the world.

The UK is a world leader in international cultural heritage protection and has taken concrete steps to protect cultural heritage around the world, including launching the Cultural Protection Fund, a partnership between the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the British Council, in 2016, ratifying the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols in 2017, and establishing the Ministry of Defence’s Cultural Property Protection Unit in 2017. The Government continues to fund protection efforts through the Cultural Protection Fund and works closely with domestic and international partners to protect cultural heritage at risk from conflict, instability and climate change around the world.