Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of evacuating (a) non-British nationals with relevant entry clearance from Sudan and (b) non-British nationals with family reunion visas.

Our priority has always been the safe evacuation of British Nationals and their eligible dependents. As such, we have been taking necessary action to ensure they were evacuated before considering other groups that could be eligible. The evacuation criteria was expanded on 29 April to include eligible non-British nationals in Sudan who are working as clinicians within the NHS, and their dependants who have leave to enter the UK. Latest figures show that we have helped to evacuate 1,207 non-British nationals. Border Force officials working alongside FCDO on the ground were empowered to make decisions on individual family cases as appropriate.