The Foreign Office has acknowledged an 'error' in internal communication lead some staff to believe the prime minister had made the decision to call Nowzad's staff forward for evacuation.
The cross-party committee later raised raised questions about who in government made the decision to prioritise the charity during chaotic scenes as the Taliban closed in on the Afghan capital Kabul in August 2021.
"The government regrets that it took as long as it did to establish what the decision-making process had been in this case, and how the decision was communicated internally to FCDO staff," it said. "It acknowledges again that an error in the way the decision was communicated internally left some FCDO staff believing that the prime minister had made the decision.
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