Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 57981

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

Tabled: 6 June 2025
Answered: 18 June 2025

Question

Sir John Hayes

Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when his Department first discussed the matter of Mauritius exercising full sovereignty over the Chagos Islands with (a) his international counterparts and (b) the Government

Answer

Stephen Doughty
As the then Foreign Secretary's statement of 3 November 2022 describes, negotiations between the UK Government and the Government of the Republic of Mauritius on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago were started by the previous Conserva...
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