Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's covid-19 travel guidance for Liberia.

The safety of British nationals abroad is of paramount concern to the Government. The purpose of FCDO travel advice is to provide information to help British nationals make their own informed decisions about foreign travel. We advise against travel only when we consider the risk to British nationals to be unacceptably high. Due to the ongoing global pandemic, the FCDO continues to advise British nationals against all but essential international travel, with some countries and territories exempted where the risks are not unacceptably high. This advice is kept under constant review. In respect of Liberia, based on epidemiological evidence and other factors, we continue to advise against all non-essential travel. The latest update for Liberia was made on 15 August. These assessments are made by drawing on expert sources of information available including local knowledge, and the experience of our staff at the Embassy in Monrovia.