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HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillThe noble Lord has made a point directed to me and I want to respond to it. The public watching this will be pretty shocked, frankly, to discover that Members of your Lordships’…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillOf course I am not suggesting that; I would never do so.20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillThe noble Lord has just made a point about the basis on which people support or object to this proposal. First, it is not true. I used to live a few hundred yards away from the…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillThe noble Lord seems to have no objection to people making lengthy speeches on all sorts of points and tabling a million amendments that support his argument, but he objects now.…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillLet me respond to that point; it is a valid question, and I want to answer it. Every single Member of this House and the other place had the opportunity to sit down with the…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, I was not planning to speak on this group, but I want to respond to some of the points that have been made. I agree completely with what the noble Baroness said about…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillPeople have argued against this proposal from day one. They have argued against not just the location but the idea of having a memorial and it being in Victoria Tower Gardens. I…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillWell, I am not sure I would take Ed Balls’s figures on this. It is not going to be 3 million. I have talked to the government officials about this, and I think that the estimate…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillHold on. Let me be really clear about this. Of course I am not suggesting that—not for one moment. What I said, very specifically—the noble Lord should concede this—was about the…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, I, too, pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, for his experience and decades of work in keeping us and our country safe. There are few people who know more about…20 Mar 2025HANSARDPalestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL]My Lords, we have to start with the practical situation on the ground. Hamas is still in place, still armed, still holding hostages, and it will not even accept Israel’s right to…14 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillI am sorry, it was the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay—11 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillWhat I will say is that millions of people visit Westminster all year round. Tourists from all over the world come to Westminster and some of those will visit the memorial. I do…11 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, there is a reason why we do not know the detail. It is because it is for the planning system, and this Bill allows the planning system to deal with the memorial. As I…11 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillI am sorry to comment yet again, but it seems to me deeply ironic that people who oppose it, and of course the controversy, then complain about the controversy and say it should…11 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, the noble Lord is completely correct to make the point about Berlin, where the memorial and the learning centre are right next door to the parliament building, right at…11 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, I was one of the few Members of either House—alongside the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, and the noble Lord, Lord Pickles, who will confirm what I am saying—who attended a…11 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillI was simply responding to something that the noble Baroness said, but I accept what she has just said. On the point about the kiosk, at the moment there is a kiosk where children…11 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillWell, perhaps somebody else might like to make the point that it is not a memorial for the Jewish community.04 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillIt is a memorial for everybody.04 Mar 2025