Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the Government last made an assessment of the safety and stability of manmade structures of the outer islands of the British Indian Ocean Territory; and when the Government next plans to make such an assessment.

No official structural surveys have been made of the manmade structures on the Outer Islands. However a British patrol regularly checks these islands. Guidance for visiting yachtspeople makes clear that these structures are unsound and are out of bounds. Those who enter the structures do so at their own risk. Fines are issued to those who are caught damaging buildings.