Defence

Luke Pollard Excerpts

Friday 11th July 2025 Written Corrections

The following extracts are from the debate on Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy on 5 June 2025.

[Luke Pollard]

What we have done with the ARAP scheme is implement as a nation, under the last Government and this one, probably the most generous Afghan relocation scheme of any of the allies that served in Afghanistan, and we have drawn a set of eligibility criteria that—with the exception of the Triples, which I will come to in a moment—have broadly remained the same under this Government and the preceding Government.

[Official Report, 5 June 2025; Vol. 768, c. 575.]

Written correction submitted by the Minister for the Armed Forces, the hon. Member for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard):

[Luke Pollard]

What we have done with the ARAP scheme is implement as a nation, under the last Government and this one, probably the most generous Afghan relocation scheme of any of the allies that served in Afghanistan, and we have drawn a set of eligibility criteria that—although we addressed how they are applied to the Triples, which I will come to in a moment—have remained the same under this Government and the preceding Government.

[Luke Pollard]

Under the criteria in the scheme we inherited from the previous Government, which we have continued, we have made the decision, with the exception of the Triples, to keep the eligibility decisions the same.

[Official Report, 5 June 2025; Vol. 768, c. 577.]

Written correction submitted by the Minister for the Armed Forces:

[Luke Pollard]

Under the criteria in the scheme we inherited from the previous Government, which we have continued, we have made the decision, with the exception of how these criteria are applied to the Triples, to keep the eligibility decisions the same.