Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what contact they have had with the Afghan diplomats to the UK who were appointed by the government of former President Ghani; and what assistance has (1) been requested by those diplomats, and (2) been provided to them.

It is the longstanding policy and practice of successive British Governments to accord recognition to States, not Governments.

The Afghan Embassy in London continues to be recognised as Afghanistan's diplomatic mission to the Court of St. James's, in line with Article 2 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961. The FCDO therefore continues to engage with staff at the Embassy.