Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 47651

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

Tabled: 24 April 2025
Answered: 2 May 2025

Question

Priti Patel

ConservativeWitham

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Question v of the letter of 25 March 2025 from the Minister for the Indo-Pacific to the Chair of the International Agreements Committee on Treaty scrutiny,

Answer

Stephen Doughty
As we have repeatedly said, once an agreement is reached and the Treaty is signed, the Treaty will be put before both Houses for scrutiny under the CRaG process in the usual way.