§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if there have been any changes in the amount, value and disposition of gold held under the control of the tripartite commission for the restitution of monetary gold in the past three years.
§ Mr. RentonThe amount and disposition of the gold have remained unchanged. Its value has changed only in accordance with changes in world prices.
§ Mr. Jeff Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the proposed recipients of the gold held by the tripartite commission for the restitution of monetary gold after settlement of outstanding claims and state what steps he has taken to inform the proposed recipients of the procedure being used for its distribution.
§ Mr. RentonThe allocated amounts of gold have all been delivered, except that for Albania. Once that has been delivered, the remaining gold will be distributed among the claimant countries (Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Yugoslavia) in proportion to their allocations. This final distribution will be conducted in accordance with procedures to be established by the tripartite commission.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if there have been any changes in the British commissioner to the tripartite commission for the restitution of monetary gold in the past three years.
§ Mr. RentonNo. The current British commissioner is Mr. M. B. Collins OBE, commercial counsellor at the British embassy in Brussels.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if any meetings of the tripartite commission for the restitution of monetary gold have taken place since his reply of 3 November 1986,Official Report, column 309.
§ Mr. RentonNo.