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Business of the House

May I join the shadow Leader of the House in her kind remarks about the role of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, who has earned the respect of everybody in the House? May I draw to his attention one of the great successes of this Government: the renaissance in the regions programme money for art galleries and museums? In cities such as mine, many people—who would never have had access to museums previously, other than free ones—have gone to art galleries and museums for the first time in their life because of that finance. Were the proposal that seems to have been made to charge for museums and art galleries accepted by the Government, would that make those museums and art galleries safe for the people whom I represent, or perhaps for the Etonians who inhabit the Conservative Front Bench?