BRITAIN’S Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) consular staff helped 46 people in serious trouble every day in 2014/15. The figure is set against some 60 million trips overseas by British nationals last year, alongside the five million Britons who live overseas.
The FCO’s Helping British Nationals Abroad report also shows that the department issued almost 38,000 emergency travel documents to help people return to the UK.
A global network of 267 British embassies, high commissions and consulates handled more than 470,000 enquiries, and FCO staff supported British nationals in 15 crisis situations across the world.
The report reminds travellers that the FCO cannot help them enter a country if they do not have a valid passport or necessary visas. Nor is it able to give legal advice, investigate crimes, get UK citizens out of prison, secure hospital treatment, pay bills, or make travel arrangements.
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