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Jack Rankin Excerpts

Tuesday 28th October 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Falconer]

We need to see the agreement implemented in full. The Foreign Secretary has raised this particular case with the Foreign Minister of Israel. We will continue to press for the full flow of aid that needs to go in. The hon. Member rightly asked me what I say to the people of Gaza. I say that we understand the urgency, and that the aid needs to be in there now. We will continue to press those points on the phone, and when we both go to the region this weekend.

[Jack Rankin (Windsor) (Con)]

12. How much and what proportion of the funding due to be allocated to Mauritius as part of the agreement concerning the Chagos archipelago will come from her Department’s budget.

[The Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Stephen Doughty)]

We have secured a deal that will protect the operation of the UK-US base on Diego Garcia well into the next century. The payments made under the deal will be split between the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence, and published in the annual accounts of each Department.

[Jack Rankin]

In what proportion?

[Stephen Doughty]

As I have said, that will be published in the annual accounts of each Department.