BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE

leave out from `ago;' to end and insert `regrets the fact that real terms year-on-year cuts in central government grant creates difficult decisions for local authorities; further notes that one such difficult decision has been forced on Wandsworth in relation to the BAC; and calls on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to work with Arts Council England to develop a new funding mechanism for BAC, which is a regional centre of excellence.'.