HC Deb 09 July 1990 vol 176 cc48-9W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will discuss with the United States the future of the Diego Garcia base in the British Indian Ocean Territory, and the possibility of the Ilois people, living in Mauritius, being given the chance of returning home.

Mr. Waldegrave

No. The defence facilities in British Indian ocean territory continue to make a vital security contribution. The former plantation workers were resettled in Mauritius in the early 1970s and their future lies there.