Although I understand the points that my hon. Friend Ben Chapman made about his constituents' concerns about suffering a lower level of policing through management of the events in 2008, will my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary bear it in mind that the Liberal Democrat administration of Liverpool has had five years to plan for those events but has signally failed to provide the funding, thus taking Liverpool into £20 million of debt? By notifying the chief constable too late to allow him to plan properly, the administration is left asking taxpayers throughout Britain to fund Liverpool's year of culture. Are not all of us who wish Liverpool well in that year in danger of being let down by its administration?