00:02The monument will be listed alongside the Cenotaph in Whitehall, Birmingham's Hall of Memory, the Liverpool Cenotaph, the Response in
00:10Newcastle and the Portsmouth Naval War Memorial.
00:13Climbing on the statue of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill outside the Houses of Parliament would also be a
00:21crime.
00:21Last month, the statue was daubed with the words Free Palestine and never again is now.
00:26Built in 1983, the Holocaust Memorial Garden stone is marked with the words,
00:38Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, who proposed including the Holocaust Memorial Garden in the bill, said that sadly it had
00:45to be covered as recently as April 2024,
00:48pointing to a fear it could have been vandalised in an anti-Semitic attack.
00:52Several newspapers at the time published a picture of the boulder covered by a blue covering.
00:58Lord Parkinson, a conservative peer, said many other memorials were worthy of additional protection from climbing.
01:04They included the monument to the Women of World War II in Whitehall, unveiled on the 60th anniversary of the
01:11end of the war in 2005,
01:13which peers also agreed to add to the list on Monday.
01:16Lord Katz, speaking for the government, said both monuments were culturally significant
01:22and indicated ministers supported Lord Parkinson's proposal.
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