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Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 10 July 2025UIN 64582

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the year-on-year spending associated with the Chagos Islands deal will be funded.

Answered by Darren Jones

Any financial obligations arising from the UK-Mauritius agreement on the Chagos Archipelago, including departmental budgetary responsibilities, will be managed responsibly within the government’s fiscal framework and reported in annual accounts in the usual way. Obligations within MOD and FCDO budgets have been agreed through the recently published Spending Review. No payments will be made until the treaty is legally binding.

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