§ Lieut.-Colonel MOORE - BRABAZONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the question of a settlement of the claims against Soviet Russia is to be a subject for consideration at the World's Economic Conference; and whether a settlement will be negotiated with regard to the Baku Consolidated Oilfields, Limited, the whole of whose concessions, properties, and assets were confiscated by the Soviet without any restitution whatever, thus involving British investors in enormous losses?
§ Sir J. SIMONI have been asked to reply. It will be seen from the draft agenda of the Monetary and Economic Conference, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House, that the question of claims against Soviet Russia is not among the subjects for discussion. The second part of the question does not therefore arise.