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I apologise to the Committee if I have missed it, but has any noble Lord seen any official statement from the Government rejecting those locations and giving a reason? I have not seen one, but I may have missed it. The proposal from their own commission was rejected out of hand, with no justification that I can see given and a new site plucked from thin air. I have heard, as I said before, Ed Balls say that it was his idea to suggest Victoria Tower Gardens and that David Cameron jumped at it as an easy win. I am afraid that, like many political decisions, this has become a political vanity project; no one can back down and admit that Victoria Tower Gardens is the wrong place.