James Cartlidge

James Cartlidge

Conservative — South Suffolk

Speaking in the House of Commons on 2 February 2026

Debate

Topical Questions

Contribution

Last August, the Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius said that when his Government take sovereignty over the Chagos islands, nuclear weapons could no longer be stored there. In last week’s Chagos debate, in answer to our repeated questioning as to whether that was true, the Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry replied three times by reading annexe 1 of the treaty, whereby it grants “unrestricted ability to…control the storage of all goods, including but not limited to fuels, weapons and other hazardous materials”. Does the use of the word “weapons” in that sentence of the treaty definitely include nuclear weapons?

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