HC Deb 11 December 1985 vol 88 c637W
Mr. Latham

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the specific purpose of the grant of £1,000 in 1984–85 under class II, Vote 2, section B3 of his Department's appropriation accounts, entitled "Palestine".

Mr. Eggar

The payments were for replacement artificial limbs for pensioners of the former Palestine Government and arise because on termination of the mandate for Palestine in 1948 certain liabilities of the former Palestine Government fell to Her Majesty's Government.

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