Afghanistan: Refugees

(asked on 18th April 2024) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, how many Afghan people are being housed in UK hotel funded accommodation in Pakistan under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme as of 18 April 2024.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
This question was answered on 2nd May 2024

The Government looks forward to bringing all remaining eligible individuals to the UK as soon as practicable.

Since Operation Pitting we have welcomed 8,702 Afghans eligible under ARAP, and 2,020 Afghans eligible under ACRS, to the UK via Pakistan.

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