Coronavirus: Foreign Office repatriation help 'too slow'
Efforts by the Foreign Office to bring home more than a million Britons at the start of the coronavirus pandemic have been criticised by MPs.
Too many UK citizens were not provided with support they should"reasonably expect to receive," it added, whilst"little was done" to provide financial support for those facing hardship while stuck abroad. It said respondents to a survey it had conducted had found official advice"outdated or unhelpful," whilst four in ten were unable to contact their local embassy.MPs said the Foreign Office had relied too much on commercial flights.
"The lack of accurate, helpful information meant many felt forgotten and as though they had been left to fend for themselves," he said. It added that whilst the UK had chartered 186 flights for 1.3m nationals, around 260 flights were chartered by Germany for 260,000 citizens.
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