Part of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office – in the House of Commons at on 2 May 2023.
David Lammy
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
I am hugely grateful to our armed forces and civil servants involved in the evacuation of Sudan. With the operation now ended, it is right to examine whether all the correct decisions were made. We know that the evacuation effort was initially stood down once diplomats were out, while other countries continued, and that national health service doctors resident in the UK were initially turned away. Can the Foreign Secretary confirm that every national health service doctor who asked to be evacuated was evacuated, regardless of whether they were British citizens or residents?