Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 May 2023 to Question 184276 on Refugees: Afghanistan, what categories of data her Department holds on its role in the Afghan Relations and Assistance Policy.

The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to help relocate some of the most at-risk people in Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 24,500 vulnerable people to safety, including thousands of people eligible for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) and Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP).

Work is underway to assure information relating to all the individuals relocated under the ARAP and ACRS on case working systems. Once this work concludes, statistics on both schemes, including the number of people resettled under each, will be included in the published Immigration Statistics.

Statistics on individuals resettled or relocated under the Afghan schemes are available in the Immigration System Statistics, year ending December 2022 release.

For a summary of the data, see the resettlement section of the ‘How many people do we grant protection to?’ chapter; for detailed data, see table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets.

The resettlement data here includes those who have been resettled under ‘Pathway 1’ and ‘Pathway 2’ of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme or relocated under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy.