Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to support the repatriation of UK citizens who were on holiday in Rhodes during the wildfires.

In response to the wildfires in Rhodes over the summer, the FCDO stood up the Crisis Response Centre and quickly deployed a Rapid Deployment Team to Rhodes. The Rapid Deployment Team and Consular Officers from our network in Greece assisted British nationals and liaised with Greek authorities and travel operators, whose commercial flights continued to operate throughout. The FCDO was, and remains, in regular contact with the Greek authorities. Our diplomatic posts monitor the risk of wildfires and impact on British Nationals globally. British nationals in need of consular assistance can call our 24-hour consular contact centre.