Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy applications are awaiting an initial decision by his Department as of 7 September 2022.

As of 8 August 2022, there are 71,300 ARAP applicants awaiting a decision on their application. This figure varies from those previously issued because previous figures referred to applications not yet subject to any internal decision-making, rather than to applicants that had not yet received a decision. We estimate there to be approximately 6,000 ARAP eligible individuals (comprising around 1,350 principals plus their family members) still to be relocated to the UK. We are focussing our efforts on identifying those eligible individuals who are still awaiting a decision and relocating all those eligible to the UK. We estimate the vast majority of the outstanding 71,300 applicants to be ineligible.