Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the year-on-year spending associated with the Chagos Islands deal will be funded.

Any financial obligations arising from the UK-Mauritius agreement on the Chagos Archipelago, including departmental budgetary responsibilities, will be managed responsibly within the government’s fiscal framework and reported in annual accounts in the usual way. Obligations within MOD and FCDO budgets have been agreed through the recently published Spending Review. No payments will be made until the treaty is legally binding.