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

To ask His Majesty's Government when they last prepared an estimate of the total capital cost for the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, and what assumptions they used for the (1) start date, and (2) end date, of its construction.

A revised Full Business Case for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre was prepared in 2023. That business case supported the Accounting Officer assessment published on 26 June 2023; cost estimates used in the business case were published on 28 June 2023 in a Written Ministerial Statement by Baroness Scott of Bybrook [Statement UIN HLWS875]. The business case assumed that construction would extend from 2024 to 2027 with appropriate contingency included to allow for further delay.

Information on programme costs incurred to date has been set out in answers by Lord Khan of Burnley to Written Parliamentary Questions HL4243 and HL4207 and an answer by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage to Written Parliamentary Question HL5549.

The contract awarded in 2016 to Adjaye Associates, Ron Arad Architects and Gustafson Porter + Bowman for the design of a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre at Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster remains in place.