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date	18/07/2017
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: Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on whether the base contractor or other employers on Diego Garcia are required to pay a legal minimum wage.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	5869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The</del> British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Employment Ordinance No.7 of 1984 (as amended) covers various aspects of employment law in the Territory and is available in the House of Commons library. <del class="ministerial">BIOT ordinances do not extend to the Territory. </del><ins class="ministerial">BIOT ordinances do not provide for a legal minimum wage and UK minimum wage legislation does not extend to the Territory. </ins>As base contractors on Diego Garcia are contracted directly by the United States, we do not hold information regarding employees and employment practice.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 26/07/2017 10:17:29 question first ministerially corrected 28/07/2017 15:27:23 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan previous answer version 7366 answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

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date	05/12/2016
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: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2016 to Question 54666, how many fines have been issued to those caught damaging buildings in the British Indian Ocean Territory for each year in the last 30 years for which records are available; and what the (a) individual and (b) total amount of such fines was in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	56089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>Records of fines in the Territory only date back to 2013. There have been no fines issued for the damage of property during this time. In 201<ins class="ministerial">5</ins><del class="ministerial">4</del> a building on Diego Garcia was damaged. The perpetrators paid for the repairs and so were not prosecuted.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 16/12/2016 14:03:59 question first ministerially corrected 23/03/2017 17:19:58 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan previous answer version 26971 answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady