Votes · October 2025 · Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill · Amendment

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Amendment 9: how MPs voted on 20 October 2025

Division 315, 20 October 2025, 21:59. The Commons Votes API gives 83 Ayes, 319 Noes: majority 236 for the Noes.

The question

Amendment proposed: 9, page 1, line 7, leave out subsection (2) and insert—

“(1A) Before sections 2 to 4 of this Act come into force, the Secretary of State must—

(a) seek to undertake negotiations with the Government of Mauritius on whether Mauritius will establish a right for Chagossians to return and reside in the Chagos Islands; and

(b) seek agreement to a referendum for Chagossians on self-determination within any negotiations which take place under paragraph (a); and

(c) lay before both Houses of Parliament a report on progress on establishing negotiations with the Government of Mauritius and the outcome of any that take place.

(1B) Within two months of the report being laid before the House of Commons under paragraph (1a), the Secretary of State must table a substantive motion in the House of Commons on the contents of the report.”—(Dr Pinkerton.)

This amendment requires that the Government must undertake negotiations with Mauritius on a Chagossian right of return and on a referendum, with a report laid before Parliament on the outcome of the negotiations. The Government must subsequently table a substantive motion in the House of Commons on the content of that report.

Question put, That the amendment be made.

As printed in Hansard before the division.

By party

Liberal Democrat MPs cast 61 of the 84 named Aye votes; Labour MPs 299 of the 317 named No votes.

Tellers: Zöe Franklin (Liberal Democrat, Guildford) and Susan Murray (Liberal Democrat, Mid Dunbartonshire) (Ayes); Deirdre Costigan (Labour, Ealing Southall) and Stephen Morgan (Labour, Portsmouth South) (Noes).

How each MP voted

401 named · CSV

Sources

• Bill: Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
• Hansard: Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
• Commons division 315
• Commons Votes API: division 7e2150ae041e473f 15 October 2026
• Hansard API: division search ac37c3ae6cf70e5b 15 October 2026
• Hansard API: debate 4cea787ced3e2aac 15 October 2026

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