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Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 November 2025

Debate

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Contribution

It has been ratified; Parliament has ratified the treaty. It has not been brought into effect, but the treaty, which states that Mauritius is sovereign, has been ratified by Parliament. That is the treaty that the United Kingdom has entered into, and which Parliament has ratified. What is the interaction between that and proposed new subsection (2) of the noble Lord’s amendment, which says: “Nothing in this Act grants … that Mauritius has sovereignty”? He is seeking to have an amendment to a Bill which overrides a treaty commitment that Parliament has ratified, is he not?

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