Arts Funding, Scotland

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — The Arts – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 January 1991.

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Photo of Mr Timothy Renton Mr Timothy Renton , Mid Sussex 12:00, 28 January 1991

I am not quite sure whether my hon. Friend means that as a rebuke. He is such a kindly man that I think it hardly likely. Like him, I was, of course, delighted when my predecessor set up the rolling programme. One of the difficulties is that some of our clients do not think that the inflation expectation is realistic. Certainly the rolling programme is set in concrete for the time being, and it would be quite wrong for me to try to disturb it.