Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government what their reasons were for departing from the recommendations of the then Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission Report (2015) that there should be a Holocaust Learning Centre bringing together a network of the UK’s existing Holocaust education partners, including a lecture theatre and classrooms, and the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Exhibition, upgraded and expanded.

The Government proposes to establish a national Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre at Victoria Tower Gardens adjacent to the Houses of Parliament. The Learning Centre will provide facilities to host lectures and seminars and to run educational courses and workshops, working closely with the network of Holocaust Education partners in the UK and internationally.