Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 26627
Gulf of Mexico: Politics and Government
Tabled: 27 January 2025
Answered: 4 February 2025
Named DayQuestion
Alison Griffiths
Conservative — Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in official documents.
Answer
Catherine WestWe have long-standing processes on establishing geographical feature names for UK use, which will continue to govern future labelling.It is a matter for the US how it labels geographical features around its own coastline.