Martin Linton asked Tessa Jowell about the timetable for the completion of the two phases of the East London Line extension and whether it could be finished in time for the London Olympics in 2012. He also got in another little dig about the proposed BAC closure and Tessa Jowell took the opportunity to back him up.
On Battersea arts centre, I echo the Prime Minister's words: Wandsworth should do everything that it can to keep the centre open. I should make it absolutely clear that we are talking about a Conservative authority that has had a 25 per cent. plus increase in its grant since 1997, so any decision to close the centre is a Conservative choice, not a Government requirement.
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