Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of British citizens who have died abroad as a result of (a) murder and (b) manslaughter in each year since 2000.

We estimate there are approximately 60-90 new cases of British nationals who have died abroad as a result of murder or manslaughter reported to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office every year. Our current case management system includes data from 2008 only and does not differentiate between murder and manslaughter. These figures can be found below:

2008 – 66

2009 – 68

2010 – 68

2011 – 78

2012 – 53

2013 – 78

2014 – 84

2015 – 88

2016 – 65

2017 – 74

2018 - 73