Ilois: Finance

(asked on 6th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to establish processes to enable Chagossians to apply for funding from the Government's Chagossian Support Package.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 14th July 2020

We have developed the following criteria to demonstrate eligibility to access the Support Package:

  • Being born in the Chagos Archipelago/British Indian Ocean Territory.
  • Claiming to be of Chagossian heritage, descended from a Chagossian born in the Chagos Archipelago/British Indian Ocean Territory, with a direct maternal or paternal line of descent.

These criteria are already being applied to ensure that heritage visit places are allocated in a fair and transparent manner.

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