Speeches

Mike Freer – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mike Freer on 2014-06-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to European governments to secure as quickly as possible restitution for British citizens who had assets seized by the Nazis.

Mr David Lidington

I refer my hon. Friend to my answer of 30 January 2014, Official Report, column 689W. Since January, the British Government has engaged at Ministerial or official level with the Germans, Poles and Russians on restitution and looted art.