PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(13 January 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department took to assess the safety of travel to countries bordering the Red Sea before issuing travel advice on diving and snorkelling in the travel advice on Egypt.

Asked by:
Wendy Morton (Conservative)

The safety of British nationals in each country and territory is the FCDO's overriding concern when determining travel advice. FCDO travel advice is based on objective assessments of the risks to British nationals. These assessments are made by drawing on expert sources of information available to the government including local knowledge from our embassies, information provided by the local authorities in each country, and in some cases information gathered by the intelligence services. Travel Advice for Egypt was updated on 24 December 2024, following a review of incidents on dive boats involving British nationals in 2023/2024.

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