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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the evidential basis was for the Government’s assessment that Victoria Tower Gardens was a cost-effective site for the proposed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre; and what value was attributed to (a) Victoria Tower Gardens and (b) its existing uses in that calculation.

Details of the Government’s assessment of Victoria Tower Gardens were published with the planning application and remain available on Westminster City Council’s website.