asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing, in the case of each of the countries currently receiving British aid where claims in respect of nationalisation and expropriation affecting the property of British subjects remains outstanding, what sums are involved, when the claims first arose and how much British aid has been made available to the country concerned since that time.

The following is a list of those countries currently receiving British aid where claims in respect of nationalisation and expropriation affecting the property of British subjects remain outstanding, showing the year from which the various measures date and the total of British aid made available since that time. The figures shown are cumulative totals from and including the given year, up to the end of 1975.

		Bilateral disbursements £ million
Country	Year	(gross)
Afghanistan	1975	0·19
Algeria	1962	1·18
Bangladesh	1972	25·99
Burma	1963	3·29
Congo	1970	0·09
Costa Rica	1972	5·66
Ethiopia	1975	2·91
Ghana	1973	4·31
India	1967	466·97
Indonesia	1962	43·33
Malawi	1966	81·06
Pakistan	1973	14·49
Somalia	1970	1·20
Sri Lanka	1972	10·04
Tanzania	1967	17·76
Uganda	1972	11·77
Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen	1967	8·27
Zaire	1973	0·25
Zambia	1969	43·10

Insufficient information is available to enable the total of outstanding claims to be calculated, since for the most part negotiations are being conducted by the claimants themselves. I am not in a position to make public details of individual claims which are known to us.