Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister of 25 April 2018, Official Report, Column 870, whether the citizenship status will be offered to (a) residents and (b) children of residents of the Chagos Islands that were evicted from those islands between 1967 and 1973 that now reside in the UK.

All commonwealth citizens who settled in the UK before 1973 will be eligible for the free citizenship offer and details of that process will be provided in the forthcoming days.