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Ilois: Resettlement

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 15 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 16 December 2008, Official Report, columns 699-700W, on Ilois: resettlement, when he expects the costs in the case of R (Bancoult) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to be finalised; and if he will make public the information when it becomes available. (246288)

The costs of the respondent in the case of R (Bancoult) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the House of Lords on which judgment was given on 22 October 2008 have not yet been finalised. Subject to any unforeseen actions that arise in the court process, it is expected that the issue of costs be finalised in accordance with the applicable court procedures over the next few months. The information on costs will be made available to Parliament and to the public, assuming such disclosure is permitted by the courts.