To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what account her Department takes of Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice in decisions on deportation. (191405)

[holding answer 3 March 2008]: Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice is for British nationals. There is often a difference between the risks a British citizen would face when travelling to a foreign country and those for someone returning to what is their home country. Travel advice aimed at British travellers cannot therefore be assumed to apply in the same way to nationals of the country concerned. Instead, decisions about whether it would be safe to return an individual to their country of origin are taken in the light of all the available information about conditions as they relate to nationals of that country.