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Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the proportion of his Department's budget that will be been spent on the Chagos treaty in each remaining year of the current Parliament.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
15 Jun 2026
Answer
29 Jul 2026 · 50 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the proportion of his Department's budget that will be been spent on the Chagos treaty in each remaining year of the current Parliament.

  2. 15 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    No payments are due under the terms of the UK-Mauritius agreement until the Treaty has been ratified.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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