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I hope that these examples serve to persuade the Minister to accept my more logical solution set out in Amendment 370, but in case they do not, I have also tabled Amendments 372ZZA and 372ZZB suggesting the addition of just two egregious omissions from the Government’s present list. I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Blencathra for signing all these amendments, as he did in Committee. During our debate in Committee, the noble Lord, Lord Katz, explained that the Home Secretary has already indicated that she intends to specify the as-yet-unbuilt Holocaust memorial intended for Victoria Tower Gardens. Why, then, would she not list the existing Holocaust Memorial in Hyde Park, which was unveiled in 1983? Sadly, that had to be covered in tarpaulin as recently as April 2024 on the advice of the Metropolitan Police, who were concerned that it would be vandalised by antisemitic protesters.