Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 75282

Diego Garcia: Military Bases

Tabled: 4 September 2025

Answered: 22 September 2025

Question

Priti Patel

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, on what date he agreed to remove the provision to provide the UK with a unilateral right to extend the 99-year lease for the use of Diego Garcia from the draft UK-Mauritius T

Answer

Stephen Doughty

As we have consistently said, we are not going to provide a commentary on the negotiations, nor our implementation talks. The final, agreed Treaty has been laid in Parliament.