Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what British military capabilities have been stationed in the Indian Ocean Territory in every year since 2021.

The military on Diego Garcia provides the UK and the US with a secure naval base and aerodrome at the centre of the Indian Ocean. The base enables greater reach for ships and aircraft which use it to re-fuel and re-supply and allows military forces to be pre-positioned so they can respond to military or humanitarian crises quickly. For operational and personal security reasons, we cannot disclose the specific military capabilities which are stationed in the British Indian Ocean Territories.