Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2016 to Question 54666, how many fines have been issued to those caught damaging buildings in the British Indian Ocean Territory for each year in the last 30 years for which records are available; and what the (a) individual and (b) total amount of such fines was in each such year.

Records of fines in the Territory only date back to 2013. There have been no fines issued for the damage of property during this time. In 2015 a building on Diego Garcia was damaged. The perpetrators paid for the repairs and so were not prosecuted.