Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with (a) the Department for Health and Social Care and (b) other specialist psychological services to provide (i) specialist and (ii) culturally sensitive mental health support for newly-arrived Afghan refugees.

Under Operation Warm Welcome, all those evacuated from Afghanistan to the UK have access to healthcare via the NHS, free of charge.

To further support this cohort, the UK government announced £3 million of additional NHS funding to support them to access an initial healthcare assessment - including mental health support and assessment of any trauma and safeguarding concerns - whilst in temporary accommodation.