6,900 people to be relocated after Afghan data leak

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A dataset containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 people who applied for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap) was released “in error” in February 2022 by a defence official. Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret £850 million scheme set up after the breach. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Anyone on the data set who has worked alongside our forces and served with our forces is eligible

00:07for the main scheme that's been in place for four years now, the ARAP scheme.

00:15There's a lot of figures flying around. The 1,500 is the total that will come of principles with

00:23their families to this country as a result of this secret resettlement route until yesterday.

00:30The majority of those are already in Britain or in transit, but we will honour the invitations

00:36that have been issued to another 600. So there'll be a total of about 6,900 and there'll be a total

00:42cost of around £800 million. We will bring a total of 1,500, not 3,000, principles into this country.

00:51As a result of the decisions that I've taken across the board, we'll see 9,500 fewer Afghans

00:57come into this country in the next few years. We'll save the taxpayer £1.2 billion. But most

01:04importantly, the decisions I've taken has allowed the judge to lift this unprecedented super injunction.

01:11So we've got fewer numbers, lower cost, and we've got greater transparency so the public for the first

01:17time can know about what's been going on and what was put in place by ministers in the previous government.

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