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My Amendment 370C refers to Schedule 12, Part 3, which deals not with war memorials per se but memorials to wartime political leaders—or, rather, to a single one. Here, the Government’s logic breaks down even further, because the statue they have chosen is not grade 1 listed; it is the grade 2 listed—the lowest tier of listing—statue to Sir Winston Churchill. That stands in contrast to the grade 1 listed sculpture by Auguste Rodin of the Burghers of Calais, which stands just outside Parliament in Victoria Tower Gardens, and commemorates the surrender of Calais during the Hundred Years’ War—itself a wartime sculpture. Or, indeed, the grade 1 listed statue to Charles, King and Martyr, which stands at the top of Whitehall. Noble Lords will remember that King Charles I led this country through the Anglo-Spanish War of 1625 to 1630 and the Anglo-French War of 1627 to 1629. Is there to be a statute of limitations in the Bill for the soldiers and sailors who died in those conflicts because they happened to occur in centuries longer ago?