Afghanistan Response Route (ARR)

Public Accounts Committee Open Inquiry
Opened: 13 Oct 2025 Parliament page
The Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) was set up by the Ministry of Defence to mitigate the security risks arising from a data protection breach and the unauthorised disclosure of personal information about Afghan citizens which occurred in February 2022. The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a report on the … Read more
26 Conclusions
1 Report
4 Letters
Activity timeline 6 events
14 May
2026
Correspondence
20 Apr
2026
Correspondence
19 Jan
2026
Report published
14 Nov
2025
Report published
16 Oct
2025
Correspondence
3 Sep
2025
Correspondence
Title HC No. Published Items Response
54th Report - Afghanistan Response Route HC 1391 14 Nov 2025 26 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
1 result
Clear
5 Conclusion Rejected
54th Report - Afghanistan Response…
Require Department to explain how Afghanistan Response Route resettlement costs are separately captured
The Department did not put in place a mechanism to accurately identify and account for the costs of resettling individuals who were at high risk due to the data breach. The Department accounted for the costs of the ARR within … Read more
Government Response
The government rejected the recommendation to capture Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) costs separately due to complexity, proposing instead to provide an indicative cost allocation for both schemes at the end of each financial year via an average cost per person calculation.
HM Treasury
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Government Response AI assessment · 17 of 0 classified
Accepted 6
Acknowledged 3
Deferred 5
Not Addressed 2
Rejected 1
Total 0 recs + 26 conclusions
Correspondence 4 letters
14 May 2026 To committee Letter from the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence relating to Afghanistan Resettlement Programme Update, 28 April 2026
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20 Apr 2026 To committee Letter from the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence to the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee Chair relating to Afghanistan Response Route, 2 April 2026
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16 Oct 2025 To committee Letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence relating to the February 2022 Afghan Data Incident follow up information, 07 October 2025
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3 Sep 2025 To committee Letter from the Treasury Officer of Accounts at HM Treasury relating to the spending incurred following the Afghan data leak and in relation to expenditure on the Afghan Response Route, 26 August 2025
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