Glasgow North MP Patrick Grady has asked the government for details of Chagossian involvement in environmental protection of their homeland. In response to a series of questions (full text at bottom of this article) from the SNP MP, Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan admitted only 8 Chagossians have taken part in environmental protection programmes since 2012. He added that none of these had taken place in 2018. The Minister suggested that the government "encourage scien

Help to go home. Clarity on citizenship issues. The right to determine their future. These are the simple rights SNP MP Paul Monaghan has called for in a recently published article in political journal Politics First. The full text can be read on Mr Monaghan's personal website. Dr Mongahn, who last year led a Parliamentary debate on the Chagos Islands, opens the article with a brief summary of the traumatic recent history of the Chagossian people and how their exile came to b