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New Forest East

MHCLG – HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL BILL - 20 January 2026

MHCLG – HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL BILL - 20 January 2026

Sir Julian Lewis: I declare a sort of interest, in that many members of my family were murdered in the Holocaust. I understand the meaning of the term “Holocaust” to be the Nazis’ mass extermination of the Jews during their period in power, both in their own country and in the countries they occupied. I have not followed the progress of the Bill as closely as I should have done, but I get the impression that there is some move away from keeping it specific to that terrible crime, towards widening it to cover massacres in general and other terrible racial crimes. I think the intention behind the Bill and the museum was that it should be about the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis and their associates. Can the Minister confirm that that is still the situation?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Miatta Fahnbulleh): I can confirm that that is the case, and I will be very clear and explicit about both the intention and what we will do to enshrine that intention. ... ]