HC Deb 08 November 1949 vol 469 cc118-20W
Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the total value of British expropriated property in Czechoslovakia notified to His Majesty's Government.

Mr. Mayhew

There is no separate register of property claimed to have been affected by expropriation as distinct from other measures, such as nationalisation and dispossession, listed in the Anglo-Czechoslovak compensation agree- ment of 28th September last. The total nominal value of claims notified to His Majesty's Government in respect of all types of property affected by the Czechoslovak measures in question is £33,200,000. This sum, however, includes a number of claims which may not be eligible for compensation and the true value of eligible claims may be substantially less than that sum.