Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy

Part of Defence – in the House of Commons at on 18 July 2022.

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Photo of James Heappey James Heappey The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence

I think the hon. Gentleman might realise that I have answered that question in my original answer. We think that there are about 2,000 principals—people who actually worked with us—yet to bring out. Rather than going through tens of thousands of applications, we are asking those with networks in-country to help us find those 2,000 people on the list. We have the capacity and the routes to bring them out. The challenge is finding them when a huge number of applications are gaming the system, with dozens of applications coming in on the same staff number, which should be the individual identifier.