Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the number of British citizens in (a) Yemen, (b) Syria, (c) Libya, (d) Somalia and (e) Iraq.

We are not able to estimate accurately the numbers of British nationals in countries to which we advise against travel or where we have restricted or no representation. Our ability to provide consular assistance to British Nationals in those countries is also limited. However we will, where we can, support British Nationals who require consular assistance, as we have for those that have left Yemen following the Saudi-led military action, which began in March 2015.