§ Mr. Ivan LewisTo ask the President of the Board of Trade when she expects the repot on British policy towards enemy property during and after World War II will be published. [19596]
§ Mr. Nigel Griffiths[holding answer 8 December 1997]: As I announced in reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member from Leyton and Wanstead, on 31 July 1997, Official Report, column 641, the Government has set in train a research project to examine papers relevant to the Trading with the Enemy legislation under which the property of enemy countries was confiscated during the Second World War. The project, which has been co-ordinated by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in close partnership with the DTI, is now nearly complete. A report of the findings will be published early in the New Year.