Question follow-through · 36451
Sovereignty: British Indian Ocean Territory
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on using funding reallocated from the Overseas Development Assistance budget to fund the Chagos settlement.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 7 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on using funding reallocated from the Overseas Development Assistance budget to fund the Chagos settlement.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
FCDO and the MOD are the lead departments for the Chagos agreement, and must balance any commitments under an agreement against wider priorities in their budgets – and in line with the Managing Public Money framework. OECD Development Assistance Committee...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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