Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to his Department's freedom of information case FOI2007-15 on legal costs and Chagos Islands, what additional cost to the public purse has been incurred in the Bancoult, Chagos Refugee Group and Chagos Islanders case since 4 February 2015.

Since 1 January 2015, the Government Legal Department has raised invoices in the sum of £128,113 in respect of litigation brought by Chagossian interest groups in relation to the British Indian Ocean Territory.