Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2021 to Question 88732 on Afghanistan: Refugees, what assessment he has made of the impact on applicants of tasking 84 personnel to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy team to work through 102,000 applications.

More than 90% of ARAP applications, including all of those received during or prior to Op PITTING, are either complete, or in progress.

Applications continue to be received at a rate of several hundred per week and the time taken to process an individual application can vary enormously due to factors outside the control of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Staffing levels will remain under review and this endeavour remains a high priority. MOD personnel continue to work seven days a week to maintain this high volume of output.