Clause 64
Finance (No.2) Bill
11:15 am
Celia Barlow (PPS (Ian Pearson, Minister of State), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Hove, Labour)
May I say to my right hon. Friend that the clause is very welcome in Hove and Portslade where there is a large Jewish population, many of whom moved here in the 1930s and 1940s or are the children of the people who did so. Many local families fled central Europe, and some of them still remember the horrors.
It is reassuring that the clause was drafted after negotiations with the Association of Jewish Refugees. I realise that the provision already existed as an extra-statutory concession, but enshrining it in law will give victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs the security of knowing that their family money can be retrieved without loss. That is why I support the clause wholeheartedly.