Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will provide a list of external legal, strategic, intelligence, PR and lobbying advice in relation to the proposed Chagos deal with Mauritius; who that advice was from; under what contract terms; and at what cost.

The Government has received external legal advice in relation to the negotiations with Mauritius over BIOT/the Chagos Archipelago over the course of several years.

Payments are published in the normal manner alongside other Departmental spend in the annual accounts.