HC Deb 20 February 1924 vol 169 c1744
52. Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK

asked the Prime Minister whether the claim for the cost of pensions and allowances forms part of the British Government's demand for reparations from the German Government?

The PRIME MINISTER

The British claim for reparations is not now the sum of separate items but a percentage of the total reparation payments to be made by Germany, calculated, we hope, on a survey of her capacity to pay, and there the matter must remain till the negotiations which will follow the report of the Reparation Committee which we now await.