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 10 April 2019 to Question 239872, for what reason the Prime Minister’s announcement on 27 January 2016 on locating the Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens did not refer to the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation’s recommendation that the Memorial and the Learning Centre should be co-located.

Co-location was recommended by the Prime Minister’s Commission in January 2015 and reflected in the Foundation’s document on the search for a site published in September 2015. The Government press release on 27 January 2016, following the PM announcement, also noted that plans for the learning centre would be announced in the coming months.