Chagos Islands
Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office
3:33 pm

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Chris Bryant (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Europe), Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Rhondda, Labour)

The hon. Gentleman is shaking his head, so I have obviously misunderstood the precise nature of his question. Doubtless he will inform me of it later. He also asked what happened between 10 March and 1 April. We made the decision that no further information could possibly be garnered that would affect whether it was right or not to establish a reserve now. That is why we decided to act. We believe that it is in the interests not only of the territory itself but of the whole of the Indian ocean and of the biodiversity of the planet that we start the MPA as soon as possible.


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