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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 4:48 pm on 15 January 2008.

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Photo of Michael Fabricant Michael Fabricant Opposition Whip (Commons) 4:48, 15 January 2008

My hon. Friend is quite right in what he has just said. He is also right to say that none of us should be demonised if we question the amounts of money being spent on the Olympic games— particularly those of us who are not from metropolitan London and who will not feel quite the same benefit as Londoners from the legacy. There are already swingeing cuts in the arts. Lichfield Garrick theatre is no longer to receive its funding, nor is the Birmingham repertory theatre, and that situation is replicated throughout the United Kingdom. What assurance do we have that the situation will not get worse?