Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK citizens located in countries in the Middle East, whether temporarily or permanently, provided their contact details to his Department during the Iran conflict commencing at the end of February 2026.

Register Your Presence (RYP) is an online portal hosted by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), which allows British Nationals and other eligible persons to log their name, location and contact details with the FCDO during a crisis response. On this occasion, RYP was launched in seven countries across the region from 28 February 2026 and remained active for the entirety of the crisis response. It was deactivated as appropriate across different locations in line with situational context and Travel Advice decisions. Around 177,000 individuals registered their details from a range of countries.