MoD does not know how much has been spent on bringing data-leak Afghans to UK

"The government is unable to calculate the total cost of a secret relocation plan it set up following the Afghan data leak, Britain's public spending watchdog has said. In Ministry of Defence (MoD) accounts, the amount spent on the scheme was not recorded separately to other resettlement activity following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021, the National Audit Office (NAO) said."

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Britain's National Audit Office concluded that the government cannot calculate the total cost of a secret relocation plan created after an MoD data leak. MoD accounts did not record expenditure on the scheme separately from other resettlement activity following Kabul's fall in 2021. A catastrophic MoD data breach discovered in August 2023 exposed details of roughly 18,700 Afghan resettlement applicants and thousands of family members. The MoD imposed a superinjunction on the UK press and evacuated thousands affected by the leak. The government used the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Programme (Arap) route as cover for evacuations.

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