Member

In doing so, I want to be clear about the purposes. First, is compliance with the recommendations that were made in 2015. Secondly, anything that is suggested needs to be aware of the financial situation and needs to be cost competitive. Thirdly, anything that is suggested should remove any suggestion of competition with the Imperial War Museum. I will deal with that right away: if we need a gallery, and if we need a presentation about the position of the UK in the 1930s—I remember some demonstrations at Hyde Park Corner, which was a favourite place in those days before the war—it could be made in the Imperial War Museum. Indeed, it could be financed by the memorial and learning centre if it were successful in raising money. Fourthly, the risks that we are facing now badly need reducing. I also think we should create not a closely-defined learning centre but the possibility of a flexible approach to whatever that centre is going to do to create a world-class educational initiative. We should also try to find a way of enabling an earlier completion date; the debates today make that very clear.