Question follow-through · 36670
Diego Garcia: Military Bases
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial arrangements have been made for the continued lease of the Diego Garcia military base; and what estimate he has made of the annual costs of that base.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial arrangements have been made for the continued lease of the Diego Garcia military base; and what estimate he has made of the annual costs of that base.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2025
Answer published
There is no lease with respect to Diego Garcia. US presence and operations in the British Indian Ocean Territory are governed by a series of international agreements, beginning with a 1966 Exchange of Notes between the US and UK The direct cost to the Min...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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