| Heading: |
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty |
| Question ID: |
1809873 |
| UIN: |
57626 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-05 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4066 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Priti Patel
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| Asking Member handle: |
pritipatel
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@pritipatel
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) discussions and (b) correspondence he has had with his counterpart in the Maldives on the future sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-18 |
| 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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| Answer text: |
The issue of British Indian Ocean Territory sovereignty featured in the Foreign Secretary's meeting with the Maldives Foreign Minister at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting on 25 October 2024 and in the Minister for the Indo-Pacific meeting with... |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |