Member

I had presumed that that well-trodden route is the reason for the inclusion in the Government’s list of the statue of Edith Cavell, just north of Trafalgar Square, and the omission of the statue of Florence Nightingale, just around the corner at Waterloo Place—or is it really just because one is Grade 1 listed and one is not that the Government think these two nurses deserve differential treatment? One memorial on that route which is Grade 1 listed is, of course, Admiral Lord Nelson’s. That is Grade 1 listed but has been excluded, perhaps on the grounds of inaccessibility—or maybe the Minister thinks that anyone who succeeds in scaling that column deserves special dispensation under the Act.