National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service

(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what dates the Royal Parks agency was informed that Victoria Tower Gardens (a) was being considered and (b) had been chosen as a site for the Holocaust Memorial; and on what date the Royal Parks agency was informed that the Holocaust Learning Centre would also be located in those gardens.


Answered by
Marcus Jones Portrait
Marcus Jones
Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
This question was answered on 17th October 2017

The Royal Parks was first consulted in December 2015 and they were advised of the decision to locate the Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens in January 2016.The Royal Parks was subsequently consulted on locating the Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens in May 2016.


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