Select Committee on Foreign Affairs Written Evidence


Letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from the Chairman of the Committee, 28 June 2004

BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY ORDERS

  Thank you for your letter of 15 June, enclosing the copies of the two Orders in Council relating to the British Indian Ocean Territory.

  At its last meeting, the Committee discussed your letter and the two Orders in Council. Although they noted the proviso in your letter of 12 July 2002 regarding prior scrutiny of such orders, Members were surprised that you felt unable to share the contents of the two measures with them before they were made by Her Majesty. I would be grateful, therefore, if you could clarify exactly why these orders were not sent to the Committee in draft before the Privy Council meeting on 10 June.

  I look forward to your reply.

Rt Hon Donald Anderson MP

Chairman of the Committee

28 June 2004


 
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