Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will publish an estimate of the number of British residents who (a) are being detained in countries outside the UK as at 18 October 2021 and (b) have been detained outside the UK in the last five years.

Our Human Rights and Democracy reports from 2018 to 2020 state that we provided consular assistance to 2,335, 2,193 and 1,985 cases of British nationals who had been detained overseas. In 2017 the figure was not included in the report but was 2,338.

The Human Rights and Democracy reports are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/human-rights-and-democracy-reports.

Data on new cases of detention is also available each month and for each year here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/consular-data