Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 41010

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

Tabled: 25 March 2025
Answered: 1 April 2025
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Question

Mr Mark Francois

ConservativeRayleigh and Wickford

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's latest estimate is of the cost to the public purse of the proposed agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, including (a) a

Answer

Stephen Doughty
Once an agreement is signed further details of the Treaty will be put before both Houses for scrutiny and treaty ratification in the usual way. This will include costs.