Background to the report

This is a factual report about the Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) scheme, which the Ministry of Defence (MoD) set up to mitigate the security risks arising from a data protection breach and the unauthorised disclosure of personal information which occurred in February 2022. It has been prepared for the Public Accounts Committee to support its scrutiny of the MoD.

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Scope of the report

The report describes:

  • the key events and decisions which led to the creation and public disclosure of the ARR scheme
  • the number of individuals who have been and are expected to be resettled through the ARR scheme
  • the associated costs which the MoD has already incurred, and the future costs which it expects to incur

The report does not seek to evaluate the MoD’s management of or spending on the ARR scheme, focussing instead on establishing the facts of the ARR scheme.

It does not assess the evidence which led to the super-injunction being issued, maintained and then lifted, or any other aspects of the legal process, nor does it look at the other Afghanistan resettlement schemes for which the government is responsible.

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