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Economic Downturn (Unemployment)

I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman on the specifics of what might be happening in Somerton and Frome because of the RDA. I know some interestingly difficult issues have been faced. When I lived there and was the mayor of Frome we had some good engagement from the RDA on helping to develop the middle of town and to achieve some of the transfers of employment sites around the town. I do not have any up-to-date information for the hon. Gentleman, but I can point to my constituency where the RDA has purchased from the Ministry of Defence the Osprey quay site. Without that decision the Olympics would not be coming to our region, with all the consequent economic benefits that getting the biggest sporting event the world has ever seen to come the south-west of England will have for the whole region.