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766049

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date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons the Government decided to locate the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre on none of the sites recommended in the Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission report of January 2015; which organisations were consulted before the decision was made to use none of those sites; and what sites were considered after that decision was taken.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	106036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Commission was clear that these were not the only sites and that the delivery body tasked with fulfilling the recommendations of the Holocaust Commission (DCLG with advice from the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation) should conduct an extensive search of all potential sites. In conducting its search for possible locations, through which almost 50 sites were considered, the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation consulted a wide range of organisations throughout 2015 and beyond, including the Royal Parks, Holocaust commemorative and educational organisations, property owners and developers, property agents, London Borough authorities, universities, museums and cultural centres.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 15:59:07 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

766050

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what cost estimates underlay the decision to allocate £50 million of public funds towards the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre; and whether funding is also to be raised from non-government sources.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	106189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>With cross-party support, the Government has committed £50 million. This contribution will kick-start a society-wide fundraising effort to deliver the National Memorial and Learning Centre and its wider educational objectives.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 10:31:28 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

766051

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what date Victoria Tower Gardens was first considered by the Government as a possible site for the Holocaust Memorial; and by whom that proposal was made.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	106178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>During the course of 2015 the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation - as the cross-party body responsible for advising on the delivery of the Holocaust Commission recommendations - was tasked with conducting a full search of all possibilities to find the most iconic location for the Memorial and Learning Centre. Victoria Tower Gardens was one of almost 50 sites identified and considered and was first raised as a possible location by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation in the early autumn 2015.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 10:35:45 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

766052

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation was formed; what resources were used to create that foundation; and how much funding that foundation has received from the public purse to date.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	106188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation was set up in January 2015 as an independent, cross-party board to advise government in taking forward the recommendations of the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission. With cross-party support, the Government has committed £50 million as its contribution to kick-start a society-wide fundraising effort to deliver the National Memorial and Learning Centre and its wider educational objectives. The board has no fiduciary responsibility and has received no public funding. Board members provide their considerable time and experience entirely pro bono. The Board is supported by a small secretariat team of Department for Communities and Local Government officials.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 10:36:40 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

766053

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what dates the Government decided that the (a) Holocaust Memorial and (b) Holocaust Learning Centre would be located in Victoria Tower Gardens.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	106179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The decision to locate the new National Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens was made in January 2016 and announced by Prime Minister David Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions on Holocaust Memorial Day 27 January 2016.</p><p>The Government announced its intention to locate the Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, fulfilling the recommendation of the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission for the Memorial and Learning Centre to be co-located. Prime Minister Theresa May announced at Prime Minister’s Questions on 14 September 2016 the launch of an international design competition which invited design teams from around the world to explore design concepts for a co-located Memorial and education centre in the Gardens. The design teams were asked to produce their designs in two parts. The first part fulfilling the minimum commitment of a National Memorial and the second part being the below ground Learning Centre component, which will be taken forward subject to technical, financial, planning or other constraints.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 15:57:52 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

766054

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment the Government has made of the compatibility of locating the proposed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens with the requirements for space for works and parking at the south end of the Palace of Westminster during the Restoration and Renewal programme; and what guidance has been received from the authorities in both Houses of Parliament on that matter.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	106190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation is working closely with the Palace of Westminster to consider how the plans for the new National Memorial and the planned restoration could affect each other. Measures will be put in place to ensure neither project is compromised.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 10:29:34 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

766057

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment the Government has made of the compatibility of locating the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens with maintaining the present level of security at the Palace of Westminster.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	106191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Victoria Tower Gardens is a secure, gated park, which closes at night. The building will require physical security measures associated with public buildings in Westminster. DCLG is working with a specialist security consultant and is in regular contact with the Metropolitan Police, and the appropriate Government and Parliamentary authorities.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 10:30:11 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

766061

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate the Government made (a) prior to and (b) after making the decision to locate the Holocaust Memorial and Holocaust Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens of the (i) number of visitors per year and (ii) volume of additional road traffic.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	106183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Before the decision to locate the Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens was taken, the assessment was made that Parliament Square attracts several million visitors a year and that the Memorial would attract a subset of those visitors.</p><p>After the decision to locate the Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens, the conclusion of further work by Cultural Consultants, Barker Langham, was that the potential number of visitors to the Memorial is 1,000,000, based on levels of visiting Westminster. Of those, they estimate that 576,000 will visit the Learning Centre.</p><p>Detailed pedestrian and traffic surveys are currently underway as part of the preparations to develop the design. A significant consideration during the development of the design will be appropriately managing the flow of people to and from the Memorial.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 10:31:05 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh