Question follow-through · 77043

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when Ministers in her Department next plan to meet their Mauritian counterparts.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 15 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 13 Oct 2025
Answer: 16 Oct 2025 · 31 calendar days after tabling

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

Recorded timeline

15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when Ministers in her Department next plan to meet their Mauritian counterparts.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2025
Answer published
I refer the Rt Hon Member back to the answer I gave her on 22 September in response to Question 75282.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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