British Indian Ocean Territory: Ilois

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Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2018 to Question 163140, what progress his Department has made on that consideration; and when the Chagos Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages is planned to be publicly available.


Answered by
Alan Duncan Portrait
Alan Duncan
This question was answered on 15th October 2018

The status of the Chagos Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and where they may ultimately be deposited, is still under consideration as part of the department's ongoing programme of records appraisal. To put this in context, there are around 600,000 non-standard files held the in the FCO Archives, along with around the same number of standard departmental files. FCO Archives Management Team has a rolling programme of considering these files for transfer to The National Archives (TNA), which is based on an agreed prioritisation.

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