§ Lord Janner of Braunstoneasked Her Majesty's Government:
When they expect to publish the Department of Trade and Industry Report, British Policy Towards Enemy Property During and After the Second World War.
§ The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Simon of Highbury)The Government have set in train a research project to examine papers relevant to the Trading with the Enemy legislation under which property of enemy countries was confiscated during the Second World War. The project, which has been co-ordinated by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in close partnership with the DTI, is now nearly complete. A joint DTI/FC0 report of the findings will be published in the New Year.