Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the resettlement status of Afghan people who have been housed by local authorities will be communicated to local authorities for the purpose of allowing local authorities to receive the funding the Government has committed but not yet paid for people resettled via the (a) Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and (b) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy; and if she will make a statement.

The Home Office is contacting those here in the UK in order to assist them to obtain Indefinite Leave to Remain status.

A funding instruction for local authorities in the support of the United Kingdom’s Afghan Locally Engaged Staff Ex Gratia & ARAP Schemes was published on 24 July 2021. This is for those Afghan nationals who arrived in the UK under those schemes between 22 June 2021 and 31 August 2021. This instruction is available on gov.uk at the following link: Afghan relocation and assistance: funding instruction - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Funding instructions for local authorities providing hotel wraparound support were circulated to the relevant authorities on 12 November 2021; while the ACRS and ARAP funding instruction for all those resettled with local authorities from 1 September 2021 were shared with local authorities on 22 November.

Work is underway to revise and re-issue a combined funding instruction for the ACRS and ARAP schemes for all those resettled with local authorities.