§ Sir H. Kerrasked the Minister of Works whether he will now state his plans for using the site acquired from the Canadian Government in 1959 for an extension to the National Gallery.
§ Lord John HopeI do not now intend to let this site on a long-term basis but to put it to a suitable short-term use. I am satisfied that a longer term letting might, while it lasted, obstruct any extension of the National Gallery or the National Portrait Gallery on sound lines. My Department will now be working out, in consultation with both Trustee Bodies, a long-term plan for using to the best advantage the whole area available to the two Galleries together, and I will inform the House of the proposed plan in due course.