Lord Morrisasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether further to their answer of 11th March (col. 1128), they will make a further statement on the response to the advertisement about the Foreign Compensation (USSR) (Registration and Determination of Claims) Order 1986.
§ The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Young)The closing date for claims in respect of bonds was 31st March 1987. As there was a last-minute rush to register claims for bonds by some major institutions which hold large numbers of them, it will be several weeks before accurate figures for the number of bonds received and their total face value is known. However, provisional estimates—and I would emphasise that these are only estimates—put the number of bonds received at half a million, with a face value of approximately £20 million. Up to the end of March, some 3,300 requests for application forms in respect of other claims were received and dealt with by the Foreign Compensation Commission. The closing date for these other claims is 30th June 1987.