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732661

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date	26/06/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	British Indian Ocean Territory
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Minister has responsibility for the Chagos Islands.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	1125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister for the Commonwealth and the UN has lead responsibility for the British Indian Ocean Territory.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/07/2017 15:12:34 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

732663

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	British Indian Ocean Territory: UN Resolutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has with the UK Ambassador to the UN regarding the UN vote on the legal status of the Chagos Islands.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	1126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have discussed the question of the UN vote regularly. Those discussions, where appropriate, have included our Permanent Representative to the UN. The UK has no doubts about our sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory. In my Written Statement of 26 June, I made clear that this is an inappropriate use of the International Court of Justice advisory mechanism and should be resolved bilaterally between the UK and Mauritius.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/07/2017 16:30:31 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

732664

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	British Indian Ocean Territory: UN Resolutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Mauritian counterpart on the UN vote on the legal status of the Chagos Islands.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	1127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister with responsibility for the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), met Sir Anerood Jugnauth (Mauritian Minister Mentor, Minister for Defence and Minister for Rodrigues) in New York on 19 June to discuss the Territory.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/07/2017 16:34:51 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

732665

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	British Indian Ocean Territory: UN Resolutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has with his American counterpart on the UN vote on the legal status of the Chagos Islands.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	1128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary has discussed the UN vote with his US counterpart on several occasions, most recently on 25 June.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/07/2017 16:06:13 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

732667

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	British Indian Ocean Territory: UN Resolutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts from (a) France, (b) Germany, (c) Italy and (d) Spain on the recent UN vote on the legal status of the Chagos Islands.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	1129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text The UK made representations in advance to countries taking part in the UN General Assembly debate and made our case again on the UN General Assembly plenary floor. answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/07/2017 16:49:59 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

732675

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Ilois: Resettlement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on the resettlement of Chagossians to the Chagos Islands.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	1134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>​On 16 November 2016, the Government announced its decision not to support the resettlement of Chagossians to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) on the grounds of feasibility, defence and security interests, and cost to the British taxpayer. At the same time the Government announced a support package worth approximately £40million over ten years, the vast majority of which is intended to provide Chagossians in the UK, Mauritius and Seychelles with better life chances in the communities in which they currently live. As part of the package, the Government is also implementing an increased programme of heritage visits to BIOT. The next heritage visit by Chagossians is planned for later this year.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/07/2017 15:48:19 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West