HC Deb 18 December 1957 vol 580 cc70-1W
62. Mr. Edelman

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the value of the fund to meet the claims of British creditors under the Foreign Compensation Poland (Nationalisation Claims) Order and the Foreign Compensation Poland (Debts) Order; what is the total value of the claims submitted prior to the decision of the House of Lords in Attorney-General versus Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover; and to what extent that total is likely to be increased as a result of claims made by persons who have acquired British nationality as a result of that decision.

Mr. Ian Harvey

The total amount payable to Her Majesty's Government by instalments under the Anglo-Polish Agreement of 1954 is £5,465,000. The amount so far received from the Polish Government is £1,185,121. The amount of claims formally submitted to the Foreign Compensation Commission up to the end of November, 1956, was about £2½ million. The total is now of the order of £93 million. The Foreign Compensation Commission does not yet know to what extent the total is likely to be increased by claims submitted by persons who may have acquired British nationality as a result of the decision of the House of Lords to which the hon. Member refers. The claims so far submitted by such persons amount to about £216,000. But the ultimate total may be many millions.

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