What plans she has to ensure that the 2012 Olympic Games result in a long-term legacy for target shooting sports.

The shooting facilities for the games at Woolwich will be temporary. LOCOG is looking at ways to ensure that the design and construction of the facilities there will be relocatable and therefore reusable. In addition, LOCOG is committed to the distribution of the equipment after the Games. As for Woolwich itself, over the months and years ahead LOCOG and the Olympic Delivery Authority will discuss further with the Royal Artillery barracks, the Home Office and Greenwich council what is practical in terms of legacy at Woolwich after the games.

I thank the Secretary of State for that answer, but is she aware that the £25 million to be spent at Woolwich will leave no legacy, because those ranges will be dismantled? It is difficult to envisage that they could be transported somewhere else. Why cannot the shooting sports events take place somewhere else? What will she do to help British pistol shooters who want to train for their sport prior to 2012?

[Hon. Members: They will have to go to Switzerland.]

In some cases, yes. However, there has been an enormous write-in campaign on the subject by Members in all parts of the House, and I am aware of the active lobbying that has taken place. The judgments about the suitability of Woolwich were taken by the organising committee, now the governing body, and the international federation and the International Olympic Committee, who made clear their view that if the facilities were more compact—that is, nearer the main park—our bid would be more likely to succeed. There is a not a need for legacy from shooting in the same way as other sports, as there is a world class facility at Bisley. However, to some extent legacy will be provided by the fact that the facilities of Woolwich will be relocated. The decision has been carefully reached and my understanding is that it is broadly supported by those in the shooting federation who had been arguing for an alternative.

The legacy from the Olympics will include a substantial regeneration of a major part of five London local authorities, some of the most deprived areas of the country, in the lower Lea valley. What opportunity has my right hon. Friend had to speak to the Lea valley authority and the local authorities concerned about expanding that regeneration to other parts of the Lea valley?

I thank my hon. Friend for that question. As one of the MPs in one of the constituencies, I pay tribute to the work that he has done to secure regeneration in his constituents' areas. I have had a number of meetings with the local authorities and the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. As he knows, we are about to launch the consultation on the master plan, already thinking about the governance and the running of the Olympic park and the area around it after the games are over. The Olympic park regeneration will bring about major regeneration, inward investment, a broadcast and media centre one and a half times the size of the Canary wharf tower—

Order. May I stop the Secretary of State? I call Mr. Harper.