Raphael Marshall, a former employee at the Foreign Office, has made a series of claims about his time working on the Afghan Special Cases team in August.
A former government employee has claimed the UK effort to evacuate people from Afghanistan was chaotic and understaffed.
Raphael Marshall worked as a desk officer at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) from November 2018 to September 2021.
He resigned following a week-long stint on the Afghan Special Cases team, which worked to evacuate eligible Afghans and bring them to the UK after the Taliban reclaimed Kabul in August.
In evidence to the Commons foreign affairs select committee he claims emails from desperate Afghans went unread, junior officials with no local knowledge worked on specialist cases, and the prime minister pushed for animals to be rescued at the "direct expense" of humans.
The foreign secretary at the time, Dominic Raab, has denied the allegations and said the government did "everything we could" to rescue the vulnerable after the Taliban takeover.
Here Sky News looks at eight key accusations made in Mr Marshall's 40-page testimony.
Fewer than 5% received helped
In his evidence, Raphael Marshall claimed that "between 75,000 and 150,000 people", including their dependents, applied to be evacuated from Afghanistan after the Taliban claimed victory on 15 August.
He said that for a number of reasons "fewer than 5% of these people received any assistance".
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