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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2018 to Question 203301, on what date (a) the Government and (b) the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation decided that the constraints on locating the Holocaust Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens could be overcome and that the proposed location should be confirmed.

The Foundation’s advice has consistently been that the Memorial and Learning Centre should be co-located. Information obtained through the design competition allowed Ministers to conclude that co-location would be feasible and they announced on 24 October 2017 their decision to proceed with an integrated design.