“The National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House and the Southbank Centre will all lose 3% of their [Arts Council England] national portfolio organisation grant throughout the next funding period, which runs from 2018 to 2022. … [The cuts] will allow funding for other London-based companies to remain the same and for smaller companies to be brought into the portfolio. … An additional £170 million will be spent outside London across the next four years, and more than 60% of all investment will be beyond London” – this after years of complaints that too much of the national body’s money was spent in the capital.