Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many eligible principle Afghan nationals were relocated through the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme from December 2022 to May 2023; and how many applications were received in that time period.

Between December 2022 and May 2023, 15 Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) eligible principals and 49 of their family members were relocated to the UK. Over this same period 4,129 unique ARAP applications were received.

The ARAP scheme is not, and never was, intended as a general resettlement scheme for all Afghans. As such the vast majority of the applications received between the above dates will be ineligible. In total, we have received over 141,000 applications, of which 3,511 have been granted eligibility.