§ 8. Sir WILLIAM DAVISONasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what action has been taken by His Majesty's Government with regard to the confiscation without compensation by the Russian Soviet Government of the plant, properties, tanks, and oil belonging to the 1219 British company known as Baku Consolidated Oilfields, Limited, of the estimated value of over £4,000,000?
§ Mr. EDENThe circumstances in which the Anglo-Soviet debts and claims negotiations were terminated on the 27th January last have already been explained to the House; those negotiations applied to this claim among others. No further action has been taken.