therefore, that my colleagues approve it in principle (it will be remembered that it is at present under reference to an Official Sub-Committee for detailed presentation), there must in any case be an interval before it can be enacted, so that interim arrange- ments must be made to ensure that the purchase of land for housing, for the re-development of blitzed areas and for other urgent purposes is not held up. But it is clearly desirable that this interval should be kept as short as possible; and I therefore put Central Purchase as the second matter to be dealt with in the Session 1946-7.