Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 97766

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025

Question

Priti Patel

ConservativeWitham

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she had discussions with her Mauritian counterpart on the survey being conducted by the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee on Chagossian vie

Answer

Stephen Doughty
The UK Government continues to engage with Mauritius on a range of issues related to implementation of the agreement between our countries, and I met the Mauritian Attorney General to that end on his last visit to London.