Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the delivery of public services in Afghanistan.

The UK continues to be able to support the delivery of public services in Afghanistan, despite the challenging context. Through our Supporting Afghanistan's Basic Services programme, our NGO partners have delivered services in health, education and livelihoods. Through the World Bank's Afghanistan Resilience Trust Fund (ARTF), the FCDO contributed to supporting 135,680 children (92,262 girls) to access education between September 2022 and May 2023. We work with key international partners to understand the status of the delivery of public services, for example through the World Bank's regular economic monitoring and welfare surveys.