§ 17. Mr. Stokesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many machine tools have been removed from German factories for multilateral reparations; and how many factories other than those included in the recently published list have been in consequence affected.
§ Mr. Bevin3,960 machine tools have been requisitioned from German factories under the multilateral deliveries scheme. Of these, 2,391 machine tools had on 11th December been removed from the factories and delivered to recipient nations. The remaining 1,569 are being removed from the factories as rapidly as possible. Of the total requisitioned 2,900 will come from 139 plants on the British reparations list; the remainder will come from 191 other factories in the British zone. I wilt inform my hon. Friend as soon as possible from how many of these 191 factories machine tools have already been removed.