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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:06 pm on 22 May 2024.

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Photo of Peter Bottomley Peter Bottomley Father of the House of Commons 4:06, 22 May 2024

I want the House to know what the Government know, which is that, were there to be many votes, it would squash the time between the remaining stages and Third Reading. That is why I will not take time now; we are using the time that is there. However, I hope that, during the debate, Government can put on the table, first, the specification laid out by the Government and their agency in September 2015, saying what they wanted the memorial to do and to be, and the fact that they wanted the local authorities to support it. Secondly, I hope that the Government put on the table an up-to-date estimate of the capital cost of the memorial and the recurrent costs. As the House will remember, on Second Reading, information was placed in the library stating that, in the previous 12 months, the cost had gone up from £102 million to £137 million in one year.

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