Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which parts of the works associated with the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre were included in the calculation that seven per cent of Victoria Tower Gardens would be occupied by the proposed Memorial and Learning Centre; and if he will publish the evidential basis for that calculation.
The percentage was arrived at by taking the overall park area (18,848 square metres, excluding the Parliamentary Education Centre, stairs and existing toilet building) and dividing it by the above ground area occupied by the Holocaust Memorial (1,429 square metres, including fins, courtyard, security hedge, entrance). The figure is not seven percent but seven and a half percent.