Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 64733

Diego Garcia: Military Bases

Tabled: 3 July 2025

Answered: 15 July 2025

Named Day

Question

Priti Patel

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Oral Statement of 7 October 2024 on British Indian Ocean Territory: Negotiations, Official Report, column 46, on what evidential basis he stated that th

Answer

Stephen Doughty

As the Foreign Secretary said in his statement in October 2024, the UK negotiated a right to extend the duration of the Treaty beyond 99 years. This formed part of the negotiations with the Government of Mauritius and was subsequently included in Article ...

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