Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 5 on page 2 of the Government’s response of to the First Special Report of Session 2022–23 of the International Development Committee entitled Afghanistan: UK support for aid workers and the Afghan people: Government response to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2021–22, published on 18 May 2022, in which the Government stated that it would work with international partners and NGOs to welcome wider groups of Afghans at risk to the UK under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme third pathway in future years, what work she has (a) undertaken and (b) plans to undertake with (i) international partners and (ii) NGOs to offer resettlement in the UK to Afghan aid workers at risk of Taliban reprisals in Afghanistan; what timescale the Government has for completing any such resettlements of Afghan aid workers; and if she will make a statement.

Beyond the first year of Pathway 3, we will work with our international partners and NGOs to welcome wider groups of Afghans at risk.

Further information on future years will be made available in due course, however we are currently unable to provide a definitive timescale or specify the cohort eligible under this pathway.