Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many requests for consular assistance overseas his Department received in each of the last five years.

The FCDO provided consular assistance in around 22,000 new cases in 2018 and 2019, 27,000 in 2020, 16,000 in 2021 and 18,000 so far in 2022. The FCDO also issued around 31,000 Emergency Travel Documents in 2018, 30,000 in 2019, 13,000 in 2020, 14,000 in 2021 and 28,000 so far in 2022. Requests for assistance, Emergency Travel Documents or other services are triaged, with the majority of queries resolved on first contact via our Consular Contact Centre without further assistance being required.