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What if after that has been done, which I was told in terms in the presence of the Minister will be done in the next three or four years, there is a terrorism outrage in a learning centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, which is far more likely to be visible than an above-ground sculpture made of very solid materials? Bronze is very difficult to damage, even with a bomb. We would then have security of the kind that we cannot imagine at present, which would make it extremely difficult for those wishing to visit the learning centre and also extremely inconvenient for those of us who have worked in this building for years. I have worked, if that is the right word for it, in this building for 39 of the past 41 years. I have spent an awful lot of my time in Victoria Tower Gardens eating sandwiches, being interviewed by journalists who could not find anyone better for their interview and meeting friends. It is part of our curtilage, even though we do not live in Victoria Tower Gardens, and I dread the consequences if a complex Holocaust learning centre is built there.