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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how the (a) running and (b) legacy costs for the National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre will be funded.

Victoria Tower Gardens was recommended to government as the most fitting site for the new national Memorial to the Holocaust and co-located Learning Centre by the cross-party UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation after a search of almost 50 sites across London, including the initial sites considered at Potters Field, Millbank and the Imperial War Museum.

The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation is an independent cross-party advisory body that advises the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on delivering the recommendations of the Holocaust Commission.

The distance from Downing Street to the three initial sites was not calculated.

The Holocaust Commission recommended the creation of an endowment fund to cover the running costs of the Learning Centre and guarantee funding for its mission to support Holocaust education around the county for generations to come. In accepting the recommendations of the Holocaust Commission in January 2015 the Government, with cross-party support, committed £50 million to kick-start a wider fundraising effort.