Question follow-through · 26627
Gulf of Mexico: Politics and Government
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.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
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.
4 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
We 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.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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