Forced Marriage Unit: financial loans

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Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

I understand that in the event a person in danger of being forced into a marriage cannot obtain funds to repatriate themselves, "the Foreign & Commonwealth Office may be
able to loan [them] the money for a ticket."

Please provide me with a list of all such loans, the dates, the country/countries involved, the amounts, the dates and details of repayment and the terms of the loans.

I am only interested in such loans made in the last two years.

Yours faithfully,
Steve Elibank

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dear Mr Elibank

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. It has been assigned a unique reference number (above) and has been passed to the relevant section within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal with. They will be in touch with you should your request need clarification.

We received your request on 25 October 2010 and will aim to respond within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Team
FCO

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Elibank [mailto:[FOI #50027 email]]
Sent: 24 October 2010 18:25
To: DP-FOI.IMG (Restricted)
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Forced Marriage Unit: financial loans

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

I understand that in the event a person in danger of being forced
into a marriage cannot obtain funds to repatriate themselves, "the
Foreign & Commonwealth Office may be
able to loan [them] the money for a ticket."

Please provide me with a list of all such loans, the dates, the
country/countries involved, the amounts, the dates and details of
repayment and the terms of the loans.

I am only interested in such loans made in the last two years.

Yours faithfully,
Steve Elibank

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Dear Mr Elibank,

I refer to your request above.

Please see the attached reply.

Yours sincerely,

Louise

Louise Edwards

Information Handling Manager

Strategy Communications and Training Group

Consular Directorate

Tel: 020 7008 0921

Fax: 020 7008 0426

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Dear Mr Elibank,

I refer to your request above.

Please see the attached reply and accompanying documents.

Yours sincerely,

Louise

Louise Edwards

Information Handling Manager

Strategy Communications and Training Group

Consular Directorate

Tel: 020 7008 0921

Fax: 020 7008 0426

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