Written Statement·Commons·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·HCWS943
British Virgin Islands - governance
13 October 2025
Stephen Doughty
Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories
Labour (Co-op)
Statement
In 2022, Sir Gary Hickinbottom’s Commission of Inquiry identified gross failures of governance in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a British Overseas Territory. The Inquiry found that, with limited exceptions, the people of BVI had been badly served in t...