Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many seats on each flight from Amritsar, India have been reserved for UK citizens who have been reported to his Department as vulnerable.

The repatriation effort from India is a priority for the UK Government and is one of our largest Covid-19 repatriation operations, based on the number of British travellers there and the absence of commercial options. The scale of the challenge is immense.

Over 12,500 people have already returned home on UK charter flights and we continue to work day and night to return more on daily flights from across India. 7 additional charter flights from Amritsar (Punjab), due to run between 5 and 11 May, were announced on 30 April. We reserve as many seats as possible on all flights for the most vulnerable British nationals - these are our top priority