Chagos Islands: Legal Costs
(asked on 16th September 2026) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what expenditure has been incurred in legal work relating to the Chagos islands or the Chagossian people in the last two years.
Answered by
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 1st October 2026
It is not possible to provide a single figure for this expenditure. Government lawyers are salaried and do not charge their time by individual workstream. There is also no centrally held figure for external legal costs across government relating to the Chagos Islands or Chagossian people over the last two years.