Holocaust Memorial Bill

I fully concur with what my right hon. Friend has just said, and I am fully supportive of a natio...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. There has been controversy and there has been opposition...

I do not put this as a point of argument, but as something that I hope my right hon. Friend is aw...

The consultation was undertaken after the announcement of the winning design, and from January to...

I am extremely grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. On the location, what assurance...

Victoria Tower gardens will continue to be a park with public access—only some 7.5% of the locati...

When I was Leader of the House of Commons, between 2017 and 2019, I received so many representati...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend, who was a brilliant Leader of the House, for making t...

I agree with everything that the Secretary of State has just said. He will be aware that the Jewi...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Of course, the Government stand behind the memorial,...

My right hon. Friend is making a very effective and powerful speech in support of the Bill. The p...

I could not agree more. There are representatives in this House and in the other place who are th...

My interest in this Bill is primarily driven by constituents of mine who are related to Thomas Fo...

Again, the hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. The whole design by David Adjaye and his ...

My right hon. Friend has been right in talking about the site for the memorial, and colleagues ha...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. From the meetings I have had with the commission and the conv...

I call the shadow Secretary of State.

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I want to start by saying that Labour strongly supports this Bill and welcomes the Second Reading...

Given the experience of my predecessor in this place, who was targeted due to her allyship with t...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Like me, she will have had the experience of going into schools ...

Does my hon. Friend agree with the Secretary of State, as I do wholeheartedly, about the importan...

I agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend. There are many, many lessons to learn from the darkes...

My hon. Friend mentioned Manchester, and as the MP for Bury South I am proud to represent many ho...

Absolutely. As a former student of Holy Cross College in Bury, I have met many of my hon. Friend’...

From what she has chronicled, my hon. Friend reminds us how easy it is for history to be forgotte...

As ever, my right hon. Friend speaks incredibly powerfully. I do not doubt the sincerity of those...

I personally am not convinced by the location, but want the memorial to go ahead. If it is to go ...

I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. As I said, I do not doubt the sincerity of those w...

The speakers from the Front Bench have so far been generous in giving way. I appreciate what the ...

I am more than happy to acknowledge that and to restate the commitment that we on the Labour Benc...

I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:

“t...

I will now announce the result of today’s deferred Division on the Relationships and Sexuality Ed...

I am pleased to speak in this debate to put on the record my party’s firm commitment to ensuring ...

The hon. Lady is giving a powerful speech about something that is not just practically and politi...

I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. I agree with every word she said. She is spot-on whe...

The first holocaust survivor whom I met, as an 18-year-old working in a kibbutz in Israel, was Le...

I appreciate the concerns of the local community about their amenities, but in the suggested loca...

I agree that we must remember the holocaust—all holocausts, across the 20th and 21st centuries; s...

My hon. Friend is making an intelligent speech, and she speaks with authority as the local Member...

My right hon. Friend and I will have to agree to disagree, because this will change the nature of...

May I perhaps help my hon. Friend a little? The estimate by the London Historic Parks & Gardens T...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I was the leader of the council when the planning ap...

It is also worth remembering that when the Government decided to call in the application and take...

I thank the Father of the House for his intervention. I reassure him that I am not aware of any l...

After 27 years in this place, I suppose I should never be surprised about the direction in which ...

I am enjoying the hon. Gentleman’s speech. The answer to his question is that the holocaust memor...

I thank the Father of the House, who I always listen to with respect. He is widely respected, but...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for sharing that very personal and compelling account. I agree with ev...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman and I agree with him. With my kind of politics, it is v...

I rise to speak in favour of the Bill, which I am pleased to see presented to the House for its S...

I, too, rise to support the construction of the holocaust memorial and learning centre. I hope th...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Canterbury (Rosie Duffield) and her own personal t...

I rise to support the Bill, and I speak as vice-chair of the all-party group on the holocaust mem...

This has been a debate in two parts. First, we have heard moving testimony from Members on both s...

I rise to support this excellent Bill and to oppose the reasoned amendment. It is a pleasure to f...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we should be full of admiration for the work of the Holocaust ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. Like many others, I have been to Auschwitz. I w...

How many times bigger than the Buxton memorial is this proposed memorial? It is many times bigger...

It is clearly a very different type of memorial. My right hon. Friend is referring to the holocau...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) and a privilege to wind...

Let us put it on the record that, as Winston Churchill said, only one nation in the entire world ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I agree with him, although he will know o...

When the National Audit Office carried out its report last year, it thought the cost had gone up ...

I thank the Father of the House. Build cost inflation is a serious issue, not just in relation to...

It is a real pleasure to conclude the debate. I sincerely thank Members from across the House for...

I appreciate what the Minister is saying about the 7.5%. However, does she agree that placing the...

It is our full intention that all activities that, at the moment, occur in the park can continue ...

I am not going to continue with the reasoned amendment on obvious grounds, which I spoke about ea...