Question follow-through · 74287

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much her Department has allocated (a) overall, (b) to the Ministry of Defence and (c) to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to fund payments under the UK/Mauritius: Agreement concerning the Chagos

answeredTreasury

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
4 Sept 2025
Answer
11 Sept 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much her Department has allocated (a) overall, (b) to the Ministry of Defence and (c) to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to fund payments under the UK/Mauritius: Agreement concerning the Chagos

  2. 4 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The overall cost of the agreement can be found in the document ‘UK/Mauritius: Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia’ published by the government on 22 May 2025, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukmauriti...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Budgets

16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will list (a) the members of the Budget Board and (b) its terms of reference.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Defence: Finance

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the incidence of B-Corp status resulting in financial divestment in the defence industry.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Permanent Secretaries: Pay

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2025 to Question 71214 on Permanent Secretaries: Pay, if he will publish the salaries for the two roles that were approved; and what was the business case of the exceptional sal

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2025 to Question 71234 on Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, for what reason her Department organised a training event for 70 Philippines officials in Manila;

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Political Parties: Conferences

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3 in the section entitled Civil Servants of the the Cabinet Office publication entitled Annual party conferences 2025, updated on 8 September 2025, how many civil servants in her Departme

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Coinage: Design

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65150 on Royal Mint: Committees, whether the (a) Royal Mint Advisory Committee and (b) Sub-Committee on the Selection of Themes have a policy on equality, diversity

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Defence and Nuclear Weapons: Finance

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2025 to Question 47195 on Environment Protection: Finance, what is the policy of the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosure in relation to investment in (a) defence and

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Revenue and Customs: Data Protection

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) disciplinary actions and (b) dismissals of HMRC officials have there been for unauthorised access to personal data since 1 July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Government Departments and Local Government: Employers' Contributions

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much additional funding has been allocated to (a) central government departments and (b) local authorities due to the cost of higher National Insurance rates for employers in 2025-26.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Bank Notes: Design

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65148 on Bank Notes, whether (a) her Department or (b) the Bank of England has an equality, diversity and inclusion policy on the (i) design of and (ii) selection o

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Financial Services

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to establish a sector council for financial services.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Redundancy Pay

27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Department's Guidance on Public Sector Exit Payments: Use of Special Severance Payments, updated on 28 July 2025, for what reason the guidance no longer requires all special severance payments