Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for what reason he was unable to meet his commitment to answer all emails from hon. Members received by 30 August 2021 relating to Afghanistan by the end of 6 September 2021; and what new deadline he has set for answering those emails.

The Foreign Secretary undertook that FCDO would reply to all MPs who wrote in about Afghanistan cases before 31 August by Monday 6 September. This was done on 5 September with a letter from Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon to all those Parliamentarians who had sent cases to the FCDO. This letter outlined the action that we are taking to progress cases that have been sent to us, as well as setting out the relevant contact routes that are applicable, now that the evacuation phase is over.