Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is their position on the sovereignty of Gibraltar, and what communications they have had recently with the government of Spain in this regard.

The UK Government is confident of British sovereignty over the whole of Gibraltar, including British Gibraltar Territorial Waters. The UK Government will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar would pass under the sovereignty of another State against their freely and democratically expressed wishes. We have not, and will never enter into a process of sovereignty negotiations with which Gibraltar is not content. We regularly make this position clear to Spain.