Emergency Travel Documents

(asked on 1st July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK emergency travel documents have been issued to (a) British nationals, (b) non-British Commonwealth citizens and (c) non-British EU citizens in each year since 2010.


Answered by
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Mark Simmonds
This question was answered on 8th July 2014

Between 01 January 2010 and 31 May 2014 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued 115,239 Emergency Travel Documents (ETDs). The breakdown by year is as follows:

• 2010 – 14,367
• 2011 – 27,467
• 2012 – 28,880
• 2013 – 30,006
• 2014 to 31 May – 14,609

A further breakdown of this information according to nationality is not available and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.

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