Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many locally-employed Afghan interpreters who worked alongside the British Army have resettled to the UK under his Department's resettlement package.

A total of 36 interpreters have been relocated to the UK with 19 family members during the past four months as part of the ex-gratia redundancy scheme. The relocation programme requires appropriate identity, health, medical and security checks for the individual and any immediate family. We expect the pace of relocations to increase significantly in the New Year.