Member

Amendment 14 from the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, is intended to prevent any future modifications to the Holocaust memorial and learning centre, after it is built, that would increase its size. Let me reassure the Committee that we have no plans to extend or modify the design we have proposed and seek to take forward, but it would be unwise to say that no modification would ever be necessary. We simply need to reflect on the changes that have taken place in Victoria Tower Gardens over the years, with new monuments added, the layout of paths changed and the playground remodelled, to see that practical and aesthetic reasons can lead to sensible modifications which need not be hugely controversial.