Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy have been received as of 29 November 2021; and of those, how many have received a substantive response.

The Ministry of Defence has received over 90,000 applications to the ARAP Scheme and receives more every day. Efforts to process those applications to a decision, and to inform applicants of those decisions are a high priority and are being progressed as swiftly as possible. All applications are acknowledged, however, a large number of those applications are sifted out as incomplete or duplicate applications and these will not necessarily receive a substantive response. As such, it is not possible to provide a definitive answer.