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Diego Garcia: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 3(a) of Annex 1 of the UK/Mauritius Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago (CS Mauritius No.1/2025), what the notification process will be for informing Mauritius about (a) overfl

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
30 Jun 2025
Answer
30 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 3(a) of Annex 1 of the UK/Mauritius Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago (CS Mauritius No.1/2025), what the notification process will be for informing Mauritius about (a) overfl

  2. 30 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 30 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    Aircraft accessing the Chagos Archipelago beyond Diego Garcia will maintain standard notification practices for flight information regions, which exist in the Indian Ocean flight information zone and other international flight information zones. The Unite...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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