HC Deb 18 December 1990 vol 183 c119W
Mr. Hardy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his estimate of the amount of gold held by financial institutions in Iraq on 2 August and of the amount which now remains in Kuwait or Iraq.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The Iraqi economy has been on a war footing for nearly a decade, and very little authoritative information has been disclosed. No useful estimate can therefore be made.