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What is going to happen on state occasions? At a bare minimum, there is the State Opening of Parliament approximately once a year, during which, as your Lordships well know, whole areas are closed down. Coming from the west will be less problematic than from the east, but the east is the direction from which those arriving by Underground will come, and that is how the greatest volume of visitors will come. It will not be easy for visitors to get to the proposed centre when swathes of the usual access are either closed off or narrowed down.