Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment has been made of the response by the government of Mauritius to the MV Wakashio oil spill of 2020; and what records they hold of any assessment of this matter conducted in connection with negotiations over the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory, up to and including the date of this question.

Answered by Baroness Winterton of Doncaster - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Following the MV Wakashio oil spill, Mauritius undertook a review of its National Oil Spill Contingency Plan, drawing on lessons identified from the incident. The review was supported by international partners, including the UNDP and technical experts, and was intended to strengthen national preparedness and response arrangements for future oil-spill incidents. This was one of a range of factors considered by the Government in connection to the future environmental protection of the British Indian Ocean Territory during negotiations with Mauritius.

Found: . ● UK Government BIST and FCDO teams operating overseas work alongside Scottish Government and Scottish

Found: GIB0001 - UK-EU Agreement on Gibraltar Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Written Evidence

Found: FCDO resourcing You also asked how the Department will retain the expertise of our Sudan and atrocity

Found: Planned FCDO multilateral global-health spending is expected to fall by about 23%, bilateral ODA by

Found: For much of our 76-year history, we have worked with FCDO and its predecessors across more than 30 countries

Found: Department for International Development (DFID) into the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: We note that the Foreign Secretary in May 2026 announced in Parliament that FCDO had decided not to

Found: for SDG4: To achieve commitments towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education), the FCDO

Found: the beginning of 2020, just before the pandemic, LSTM held £79 million of ODA related grants through FCDO

Found: While there is some transparency about FCDO funding allocations, project information through DevTracker

Found: reductions in the UK ODA budget have had a deep impact on global health research budgets outside the FCDO

Found: Moving beyond emergency stabilisation, the FCDO should leverage humanitarian-development-peace nexus

Found: It is now several years since DfID/FCDO have invited applications for such work, whether from UK-based

Found: With ODA spending increasingly taking place outside of the FCDO, government departments such as the

Found: Despite the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) explicit commitment to ensure Independent

Found: highlights the risk of cumulative funding losses of USD $30–50 million annually from other donors such as FCDO

Found: IPPF also provides ongoing technical and policy support to the FCDO and parliamentarians on SRHR in

Found: . █ Establish a Voices and Accountability forum within the FCDO to engage civil society groups from

Found: To maximise impact, the FCDO should prioritise predictable, multi-year funding and avoid abrupt cuts

Found: Reviews, conducted and published on DevTracker by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: As the FCDO focuses on systems strengthening, this must include support for stronger local and regional

Found: FCDO.

Found: have a significant impact on the UK’s ability to deliver science and technological innovations; the FCDO

Found: FCDO also supported system-strengthening work specifically for people with severe psychosocial disabilities

Found: UK Aid Cuts Confirmed in FCDO Annual Accounts 2024 to 2025.

Found: young people have safe, meaningful influence over conflict analysis, mediation, peace processes, 1 FCDO

Found: The Committee should ask which measure of need the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Found: FCDO feedback on Chad analysis also helped establish a formal validation mechanism for national products

Found: Groupe URD in its study on humanitarian and stabilisation action in the Central Sahel, funded by the FCDO

Found: VITA is an SRF-funded project, funded by FCDO. 9.3.

Found: Recommendation: The FCDO should establish a dedicated Local Faith Actor funding window across its Sahel

Found: Source iv Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, “We remain concerned by the deteriorating security

Found: primarily focused on the humanitarian portfolio (through SHAPP), there is uncertainty over future FCDO

Found: UKSA’s cyber resilience guidance notes involvement from DBIST, MOD, FCDO and DfT, among others.

Found: It also hosts its Sahel Regional Fund (SRF), an FCDO-funded, NGO-led pooled fund to locally channel

Found: THE SAHEL IGLIJ - Geneva, Switzerland Page 2 27 and £8.9 billion for 2027-28.[3] In July 2026, the FCDO

Found: 1 OFFICIAL FCDO Written Evidence Submission to the International Development Committee Inquiry on the

Found: A policy paper published in July, 2023 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) underscores

Found: The FCDO should state explicitly whether its Sahel strategy assumes eventual reintegration into ECOWAS

Found: partners include: • World Bank Group • African Development Bank • European Union • United Kingdom (FCDO

Found: The recommendations are designed to complement existing FCDO and Integrated Security Fund arrangements

Found: make its greatest contribution to saving lives in the Sahel by increasing humanitarian funding for FCDO

Found: Kirsty McNeill MP Minister of State for International Development and Africa Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Found: Correspondence from the Chair of the FCDO Risk Assurance Committee relating to future engagement, 30

Found: Correspondence to the Chair of the FCDO Risk Assurance Committee relating to future engagement, 4 August

Found: FCDO and DCMS Cabinet ministers or their ministerial teams have been represented at all five meetings

Found: by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: We have had one full evidence session already, at which we heard from the department, the FCDO and

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact on the defence budget of meeting the costs of the agreement with Mauritius on the British Indian Ocean Territory from within existing Ministry of Defence and FCDO spending commitments.

Answered by Emma Reynolds - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

No payments are due under the terms of the UK agreement until the Treaty has been ratified.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask His Majesty's Government what policy they have about the investigation and prosecution of British citizens returning to the UK after having (1) lawfully volunteered or for, or enlisted in, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or (2) undertaken humanitarian, medical, rescue or other volunteer work in Ukraine.

Answered by Baroness Smith of Cluny - Advocate General for Scotland

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) travel advice to Ukraine states: 'If you travel to Ukraine to fight, or to assist others engaged in the war, your activities may amount to offences under UK legislation. You could be prosecuted on your return to the UK'. Their full advice is available here: Ukraine travel advice.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which acts independently of police and government, will consider any information that is referred by the police and any decision to prosecute will be considered on a case-by-case basis and in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors.

To date, the CPS has not prosecuted any British citizens for actions carried out whilst volunteering to serve in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance has been issued to police, prosecutors and border authorities about British citizens returning to the UK after having (1) lawfully volunteered or for, or enlisted in, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or (2) undertaken humanitarian, medical, rescue or other volunteer work in Ukraine.

Answered by Baroness Smith of Cluny - Advocate General for Scotland

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) travel advice to Ukraine states: 'If you travel to Ukraine to fight, or to assist others engaged in the war, your activities may amount to offences under UK legislation. You could be prosecuted on your return to the UK'. Their full advice is available here: Ukraine travel advice.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which acts independently of police and government, will consider any information that is referred by the police and any decision to prosecute will be considered on a case-by-case basis and in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors.

To date, the CPS has not prosecuted any British citizens for actions carried out whilst volunteering to serve in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the publication, Expenditure Over £25,000 - July 2026 (Cabinet Office Core), 27 August 2026, what the event, work activity and topic was for transactions PMO OVERSEAS VISITS, FOREIGN COMMONWEALTH & DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, Ref: 2037005036 and 2037005075; and whether there were underlying companies providing goods and services.

Answered by Mark Ferguson - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The referenced expenditure relates to the former Prime Minister's delegation to the G7 summit in France on the 15-17 June 2026.

Found: The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office guidance on Treaties and MOUs says that any domestic

Found: Sovereignty], 17 March 2025 41 Ministry of Defence and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: Affairs The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP Responsibilities include: ● overarching responsibility for FCDO

Found: Transport Responsible Minister: Justin Madders MP Chief Executive: Beverley Warmington FCDO

Found: FCDO would lead on any memorial events.

Found: TSOC would also stand up to support an FCDO-led response if an accident occurred in non-UK airspace

Found: evidence of this could include either: • an exempt vignette • a letter from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Found: refused where the destination country: • is subject to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: also consider any current travel advice issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: refused where the destination country: • is subject to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: also consider any current travel advice issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: Britain and Northern Ireland, that has a Memorandum of Understanding currently in place with the FCDO

Found: (FCDO).

Found: state-controlled.149 6.41 In its published guidance on overseas business risk, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Found: state-controlled.141 6.41 In its published guidance on overseas business risk, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Found: (FCDO), and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) provided

Found: developing countries to respond to the challenges and opportunities of climate changeDEFRA, DESNZ, FCDO

Found: sanctions regimes in effect in the UK which are led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: sanctions regimes in effect in the UK which are led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street LONDON United Kingdom SW1A 2AH Central Government 10023600 FCDO

Found: and Information Team (CPIT), with support from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: Preventive Action, part of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an independent think-tank3, noted: 1 FCDO

Found: evidence of this could include either: • an exempt vignette • a letter from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Found: evidence of this could include either: • an exempt vignette • a letter from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Found: refused where the destination country: • is subject to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: also consider any current travel advice issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: refused where the destination country: • is subject to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: also consider any current travel advice issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO

Found: international customer needs to urgently replace their passport, they must contact the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Found: delivering over 50 evaluations for UK Government and international clients, including FCDO

Found: ’ experience delivering over 50 evaluations for UK Government and international clients, including FCDO

Found: state-controlled.149 6.41 In its published guidance on overseas business risk, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Found: state-controlled.141 6.41 In its published guidance on overseas business risk, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Found: Previous employment/roles The minister was previously a civil servant in the FCDO The minister

Found: FCDO Services spend over £25,000, September 2026

Found: FCDO Services spend over £25,000, September 2026

Found: FCDO Services spend over £25,000, September 2026

Found: FCDO Services spend over £25,000, August 2026

Found: FCDO Services spend over £25,000, August 2026

Found: FCDO Services spend over £25,000, August 2026

Found: FCDO Services spend over £25,000, July 2026

Found: FCDO Services spend over £25,000, July 2026

Found: FCDO Services spend over £25,000, July 2026

Found: FCDO Services: workforce management information on disability 2026 to 2027 quarter 2

Found: FCDO Services: workforce management information on ethnicity 2026 to 2027 quarter 2

Found: FCDO Services: workforce management information on gender 2026 to 2027 quarter 2

Found: FCDO Services prompt payment data July to September 2026

Found: services - project JUN-2026 Daintta Ltd 75,600.00 Digital outsourced services - project JUN-2026 FCDO

Found: KINGDOM Yes WDA(H) 53552 FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH & DEVELOPMENT OFFICE