Afghanistan: Resettlement

(asked on 17th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the assumptions used to generate the figure of a 5.5 to 6 billion lifetime cost of the Afghan re-settlement schemes.


Answered by
Luke Pollard Portrait
Luke Pollard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 23rd July 2025

Yes, the lifetime cost quoted of the Afghan resettlement schemes includes family members coming to the UK.

Projected costs are based on per person costs used for planning purposes, and estimated numbers of future arrivals. The estimate is based on costs incurred including: relocation and transitional accommodation costs; Local Authority tariffs and the Local Authority Housing Fund; legal fees; and staffing costs (e.g. case workers). The cost estimates also factor in assumptions on numbers of outstanding ARAP applications expected to be made eligible, family sizes and length of stay in transitional accommodation.

HM Treasury included the cost of all Afghan resettlement schemes in the spending audit in July 2024. HMT has fully funded all future costs of resettlement schemes as part of the Spending Review in June.

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