Question follow-through · 30590
Immigration: Chagossians
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Chagossians moved to the UK from (a) Mauritius and (b) Seychelles in each year since 2019.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: British Indian Ocean Territory · 27 Feb 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Chagossians moved to the UK from (a) Mauritius and (b) Seychelles in each year since 2019.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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24 Feb 2025
Answer published
An individual can apply for British citizenship if they believe they meet the requirements. Those wishing to naturalise will need to meet the statutory requirements set out in the British Nationality Act 1981, including to be of good character. Applicatio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Asylum: British Indian Ocean Territory
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who claimed asylum in the British Indian Ocean Territory and subsequently transferred to the UK (a) has been or (b) are the subject of an investigation into foreign espionage activitie