Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2022 to Question 15182, how many Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy applications have been (a) received and (b) processed by his Department in June 2022.

In June 2022, 1,730 ARAP applications were received, many of which are duplicates. Approximately 400 decisions were issued. Decisions continue to be made at the pace required to match the capacity of our egress routes. Recent progress on opening new routes require a faster pace of decision making; we are resourcing the team to be able to do so.