Gibraltar and Spain

House of Lords written question – answered at on 6 March 2014.

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Photo of Lord Hoyle Lord Hoyle Labour

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what response they have received from the government of Spain about the disruption of the Royal Navy parachute exercise in British territorial waters off Gibraltar.

Photo of Baroness Warsi Baroness Warsi Senior Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (Jointly with the Department for Communities and Local Government), Senior Minister of State (Department for Communities and Local Government) (Faith and Communities) (also in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), raised his concerns about illegal incursions by Spanish State vessels into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters with the Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr Gonzalo de Benito, on 20 February. We continue to protest formally all illegal incursions. Neither this incident nor other incursions change the fact of UK sovereignty over British Gibraltar Territorial Waters.

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