Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 10 March 2008.
The Secretary of State did not mention the fact that the convergence think tank is costing some £300,000. Given that Ofcom is doing a great deal of the work, is it not a little tactless to spend that kind of money on so few seminars—I believe that one of them is on Arsenal football club—when the portable antiquities scheme and hundreds of other arts organisations are fighting for survival as a result of Government cuts?