| Heading: |
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty |
| Question ID: |
1812977 |
| UIN: |
60001 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-16 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1447 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andrew Rosindell
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| Asking Member handle: |
AndrewRosindell
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@AndrewRosindell
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether it his Departments policy to permit the Chagossian people a say over their self-determination. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-25 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4264 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Doughty
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| Answering Member handle: |
SDoughtyMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@SDoughtyMP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Correcting Member handle: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
These negotiations were necessarily between the UK and Mauritius. We continue to engage with Chagossian communities. The Foreign Secretary and I met groups on 22 May 2025. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |