WATCH: Labour Minister Refuses to Say How Huge Chagos Surrender Bill Will be Funded

Overseas territories minister Steve Doughty is up before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in the Commons now to talk about the Chagos surrender deal. Asked about the costs of the deal he congratulated himself on the government’s transparency so far:

“It’s not normal to provide the costings but in this case we have decided to for the benefit of transparency on this deal and particularly because some of the misleading commentary that was going on around them, the government green book methodology has been used over all of this and if the committee wants I can take you through the very complex arguments behind it but essentially it averages out at 101 million per year.”