Question follow-through · 20513
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the answer of 8 January 2026 to Question 101383 on Government Actuary’s Department: Freedom of Information, what is the basis by the Government Actuary's de
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the answer of 8 January 2026 to Question 101383 on Government Actuary’s Department: Freedom of Information, what is the basis by the Government Actuary's de
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
The inflation rate applied to the calculation at the time of signature was the forecast GDP Deflator from the March 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook Report by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR); the discount rate applied was the Social Time Pre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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