Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many individuals that are eligible for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 3 (a) have been informed and (b) are waiting to be informed by his Department of their eligibility.

Under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) Pathway 3, the FCDO received over 11,400 Expressions of Interest (EOIs) before the window to submit EOIs closed on 15 August 2022. We have informed just under 200 individuals that they are eligible in principle for resettlement, subject to passing security checks. Including their dependents, this accounts for over 750 of the 1500 available places on Pathway 3. We will provide further information on next steps to eligible individuals once security checks have been completed. We are continuing to work at pace to allocate the remaining places and will notify others of the outcome as quickly as we can.