§ Mr. Barry FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence further to his reply on 11 May,Official Report, column 212, when he now expects to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight of 3 April on the Polish Resettlement Act 1947.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonAs my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces indicated in his letter of 24 April to the hon. Member, this is a complex issue which involves archive research and consultation with a number of other Government Departments. Unfortunately this process is taking longer than we had hoped, but my noble Friend will give a substantive reply to the hon. Member as soon as he is in a position to do so.