Chagos Islands: Sovereignty
Commons · Question 28799 · Tabled 10 Sep 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record
Answered 18 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Alex Burghart
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the the potential impact of the change in the social time discount rate announced on 7 September 2026 to the total cost of the Chagos deal over
Answer
Answered by Uma Kumaran, 18 Sep 2026
The value of payments under the UK-Mauritius Agreement were set out by the UK government at the time of signature and have not changed. What has changed is the Social Time Preference Rate applied in the calculation of the forecast net present value, which...