Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to assist employees of the British Council who were offered an evacuation flight under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy who were not able to make it to the airport and are still in Afghanistan.

All British Council employees approved for the ARAP scheme have now left Afghanistan. The Government continues to press the Taliban to deliver on its commitment to allow foreign nationals and Afghans with valid travel documents to leave Afghanistan.