Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan people are in the process of being relocated to the UK from Pakistan by his Department as of 8 November 2023; and under what schemes those relocations are taking place.

As the Minister for Veterans Affairs stated in the House on November 8, the Ministry of Defence's (MOD) plan is to relocate approximately 2,800 Afghans eligible under the Afghan Relocation and Resettlement Policy scheme (ARAP) to the UK by the end of December. Of these, 662 have already safely been relocated to the UK.

The MOD oversees ARAP relocations from Pakistan to the UK, working in partnership with other departments. For the separate Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme, flights and travel assistance are arranged by the Home Office and its partners, including the International Organization for Migration.