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Foreign Compensation Commission: Annual Report

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr Jack Straw) will today lay before Parliament the annual report of the Foreign Compensation Commission for 2004–05. This is the 50th such report. Copies will be placed in the Library of the House and the Printed Paper Office. A copy will also be available on the Foreign Compensation Commission's website at www.fcc.gov.uk. The report provides an account of the commission's activities during the financial year 2004–05 and includes a statement of account for that period. It also includes summaries of expenditure for the preceding years when, owing to extended vacancies for a large part of that time, no annual reports were produced. The commission was not engaged in any active distribution programmes during the periods in question and operates on a care and maintenance basis.