Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, who made the decision to evacuate the UK embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan; on what date that decision was made; how many staff were still working in that embassy at the time of that evacuation; and when that embassy's evacuation plan was last updated prior to being put into action in August 2021.

The Embassy evacuation plan was kept under constant review. The decision to accelerate the evacuation of the Embassy in Kabul was made based upon a military assessment of the risk to staff and employees.