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<p>Following consideration of this issue in the last Parliament, officials from the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department for International Development and the
Ministry of Defence are working jointly to clarify the areas requiring further analysis
announced in my Written Ministerial Statement of 24 March 2015 (HCWS461).</p><p>To
aid this further analysis, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has also sought information
from the Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions and the US Government on relevant
issues and on essential practical requirements associated with options to resettle
a Chagossian population as well as continuing discussions with other interested parties
including Parliamentarians and Chagossian representatives. This work is ongoing, and
we will explain our conclusions to interested parties in due course.</p>
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