Member

The amendment would almost certainly mean that a learning centre could not be co-located with the memorial at Victoria Tower Gardens. That, in turn, would mean that millions of visitors observing the memorial would have no immediate opportunity to learn more. Of course, there are many excellent institutions, including the Imperial War Museum, where visitors could learn about the Holocaust, but we should not pretend that all the many thousands of people who would visit an integrated learning centre would be equally likely to make an additional journey to the Imperial War Museum. If we abandon the learning centre, we are giving up on the opportunity to help many hundreds of thousands—indeed millions—of people, in the decades to come, learn the facts of the Holocaust and its significance for Britain in the modern world.