Alistair Carmichael – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alistair Carmichael on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 15 July 2014 to Question 205172, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the weather in June 2014 on the storage of records in Diego Garcia.

Sir Alan Duncan

Since June 2014, all historic flight records dating from before January 2014 were brought to London where they were digitised and remain in storage. Remaining records in Diego Garcia are now held in a different location.