HC Deb 08 December 1959 vol 615 cc35-6W
93. Dr. Stross

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the Government's present policy towards the restitution to Czechoslovakia of a part of her gold released by the Bank of England during the German occupation; and the current value of this gold.

Mr. R. Allan

The gold to which the hon. Member refers is today worth about £9.2 million. It forms part of the claim for losses of monetary gold made by the Czechoslovak Government to the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold. This claim is still under consideration by the Tripartite Commission.