PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Diplomatic Service: British National (Overseas) (1 October 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of detainees abroad who hold a British National (Overseas) passport who have been provided with consular assistance in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Emma Reynolds (Labour)

​Since 2010 the FCO have responded to 139 requests for assistance from British Nationals (Overseas) who were arrested or detained. As of September 2019 the FCO is providing ongoing assistance to 45 British Nationals (Overseas) who remain in detention.

Category	New Detention Cases
2010	15
2011	17
2012	13
2013	14
2014	20
2015	10
2016	15
2017	15
2018	10
2019	10
Grand total	139

Answered by:
Andrew Stephenson (Conservative)
7 October 2019