George Howarth – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by George Howarth on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress his Department is making on ensuring that a British-led team of experts carries out a scientific assessment of discharges by US vessels in the Diego Garcia lagoon in the British Indian Overseas Territory.

Mark Simmonds

The joint UK-US study of the lagoon water and its coral, which began in January 2014, is well underway and due to conclude this summer, as planned.