Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 11 November 2025 to Question 87342 on Chagos Islands: Sovereignty, what his planned timetable is for deciding whether the Chagos Islands Treaty will be scored against the 5% NATO targets.

Decisions on the NATO qualifying status of these costs will be considered in the usual way, once the Treaty has entered into force.