Diplomatic Service: British Nationals Abroad

(asked on 26th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many requests have been made for consular assistance by UK citizens since 2014.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 1st October 2019

​Since 2014, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has handled over 131,000 new Consular assistance cases and issued more than 182,000 emergency travel documents to British nationals who have had their passports stolen, lost, damaged or were otherwise unavailable. The FCO has responded to over 1,800,000 Consular telephone enquiries over the same period.

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