Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the table published by his Department entitled Data underlying SID 2021, published on 23 November 2022 as part of the page entitled Statistics on International Development: final UK aid spend 2021, what the (a) project title, (b) channel of delivery and (c) description was of the project with the identifier ACRS_HO funded by £125,679,578 from official development assistance spending from the Home Department; and for what reason that information was described as temporarily removed from the table cited.

Due to the security situation in Afghanistan and the risk to our delivery partners, the UK adopted the international approach consistent with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee, where all information surrounding channel of delivery, project title and project description was temporarily removed in the data underlying Statistics on International Development (SID). This included official development assistance (ODA) for all activities in which Afghanistan was the "recipient country" or regional programmes in which Afghanistan were involved. FCDO is working to re-publish the non-sensitive data and any updates will be communicated via the Statistics on International Development page on www.gov.uk.

More information on the ACRS scheme can be found on the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme page on www.gov.uk.