Member

I worry also about contracting out this decision-making to Historic England in the way that the Bill seems to do. That places an unfair burden on that arm’s-length body. It may also have the effect of deterring it from recommending some of our most important memorials for grade 1 listing, since that will now be accompanied, through this Bill, by new restrictions on the protesting public. I will be grateful for the Minister’s response as to the Government’s thinking on this matter, and I beg to move.