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date	21/04/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	India: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nationals stranded abroad in India as a result of the covid-19 outbreak who registered with his Department for flights to return to the UK were staying in the regions of (a) Punjab and (b) Gujarat.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	38493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>By 9 April, over 21,000 individuals had contacted the British High Commission in New Delhi to register their interest in returning to the UK. 9,982 of these individuals were located in Punjab and 3,316 were in Gujarat.</p><p>As of 5 May, over 12,500 British nationals have returned from India on 53 HMG charter flights, including over 4,400 from Punjab and 3,000 from Gujarat. 7 additional charter flights from Amritsar (Punjab), due to run between 5 and 11 May, were announced on 30 April.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 11/05/2020 13:14:11 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams previous answer version 17051 answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1186478

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date	19/03/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	India: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in India on facilitating the repatriation of UK nationals from that country.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	32087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2020 answer text <p>We are working closely with local authorities, commercial airlines, and the Government of India to enable British people affected by ongoing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to get home. The Government of India announced that scheduled international commercial passenger aircraft would not be allowed to land in India from March 22 for one week. We are urgently clarifying this situation. Our consular teams are working around the clock to provide support, advice, and information.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 27/03/2020 11:56:51 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry