Budget: Arts, Heritage and Cultural Organisations

Debate between Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone and Baroness Blake of Leeds

Thursday 14th November 2024 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con)]

Does my noble friend agree that, in these difficult times, waste is to be avoided at all costs? We have the wonderful Imperial War Museum with the Holocaust galleries. The last thing that anybody wants is to waste over £30 million on a memorial museum in the beautiful Victoria Tower Gardens when that money could be spent—

[Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)]

With respect, the noble Baroness was not here at the beginning of this debate.

[Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con)]

I tried very hard, but the traffic was very bad.