Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the provisions of part two of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 will apply to the extension of the agreement between the US and the UK outlined in article 11 of the 1967 Exchange of Notes number 8737 on the availability for defence purposes of the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The provisions of Part 2 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 providing for treaties to be laid before Parliament before ratification do not apply to a treaty which has been presented to Parliament by command of Her Majesty before section 20 of the Act came into force. The Exchange of Notes concerning the Availability for Defence Purposes of the British Indian Ocean Territory was presented to Parliament in April 1967 as Command Paper 3231 in Treaty Series No.15.