Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the letter from the Minister for Afghan Resettlement on 29 October 2021, if he will name the third sector partners his Department are working with to provide pastoral care to people under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy in the UK.

Networks that currently exist to support the Armed Forces Community have specific service-related knowledge, skills and experience which may allow them to provide support to Afghans with experience of serving alongside the British Armed Forces. Third sector partners within those networks are able to support Afghans in a variety of ways depending on the scope of their charitable objects and we will be drawing on all these partners to provide this support. Until these processes are established we would not wish to publicly name these charities in order to avoid raising expectations before a delivery mechanism is in place.