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Foreign Compensation Commission: Annual Report

My honourable friend the Minister for Europe (Chris Bryant) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I will today lay before Parliament the annual report of the Foreign Compensation Commission for 2008-09. This is the 54th such report. Copies will be placed in the Library of the House and the Vote 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 2008-09. The Commission was not engaged in any active distribution programmes during the period in question and operates on a care and maintenance basis.