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...