Member

Whatever our views about the other provisions of Part 9, and I have sat through and listened with interest to the debates this afternoon and this evening, I am sure that your Lordships are united in our desire to ensure that the memorials that we have collectively chosen to form part of our landscape—the physical manifestations of our national story—are treated with the respect that they deserve. But the Government’s proposed list of specified monuments in Schedule 12 feels curiously incomplete and inconsistent. My two amendments in this group seek to probe why that is.