National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service

(asked on 12th June 2019) - View Source

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

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.


Answered by
Heather Wheeler Portrait
Heather Wheeler
This question was answered on 19th June 2019

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.

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