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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 November 2025
Debate
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillContribution
Amendment 44 seeks to allow new British Overseas Territory citizens to be created through a connection to BIOT once BIOT is no longer an overseas territory. This would allow Chagossians who hold BOTC to pass on that status for one further generation born outside an overseas territory. This would create an anomaly whereby individuals with no connection to an existing British Overseas Territory could acquire that status.
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