A planned cash boost for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment could be reduced in the Treasury's comprehensive spending review next year.
Arts minister Baroness Blackstone told ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ that the CABE budget for 2003/4 was under review. She said: "Things are not quite on course since 11 September. There is a downturn in the economy and we have the extra cost of dealing with terrorism."
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport had approved a doubling of the budget for CABE for 2002/3 to £3.8m.
Sir Stuart Lipton, chairman of CABE, told a DCMS conference called Good Design in Public ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½s last week, that he hoped the budget would double again the year after.
The extra money was to have been spent on increasing CABE's staffing from 14 to 28 employees.
