PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service (7 March 2019)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2018 to Question 203298, on what date the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation made the decision that (a) Millbank Tower should no longer be considered as a possible site for the Holocaust Learning Centre and (b) the preferred site for the Learning Centre was Victoria Tower Gardens.

Asked by:
Sir Edward Leigh (Conservative)

Answer

The Foundation ruled out Millbank Tower as a feasible location in November 2015. The Foundation subsequently suggested Victoria Tower Gardens as a potential location and following investigations into the feasibility of this site, recommended the site in January 2016 as the best choice of site to the Government.


Answered by:
Mrs Heather Wheeler (Conservative)
14 March 2019

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