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Guernsey's Culture and Leisure minister has defended his department's right to spend £250,000 a year on safeguarding the island's historical objects.

Money for the four-year project may be reallocated for free bowel cancer screening or a review of the terms and conditions of States staff.

Deputy Mike O'Hara said culture and leisure was not as emotive a subject as health, but it was just as important.

He said: "A society without any culture, ceases to become a society."

Two proposals to change the funding priorities to the two different projects go before the States next week.