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Thursday 12th December 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mrs Grant]

There is absolutely no green light for fixed-odds betting terminals. Their future will be kept under review pending further work, which has already started.

[Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Con)]

T8. Following on from the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington South (David Mowat) on arts disparities, may I raise a further complication? When the Arts Council for London, or the English Arts Council—London based—finds itself in the north-west it never usually goes much further than Manchester and Liverpool.

[Mr Vaizey]

I know that the Arts Council has a forward operating base in Manchester. I shall encourage it to go further from that base and to take account of the superb culture in my hon. Friend’s constituency and in those of other hon. Friends in Lancashire.