54th Report - Afghanistan Response Route

Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee HC 1391 14 November 2025
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 26 items
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Government Response (AI assessment · 26 of 26 classified)
Accepted 14
Acknowledged 3
Deferred 5
Not Addressed 2
Rejected 2
Government response
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Fifty-fourth report from Session 2024-26 · published 19 Jan 2026
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Recommendations & Conclusions

2 results
5 Conclusion Rejected
Require Department to explain how Afghanistan Response Route resettlement costs are separately captured
Conclusion
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 Summary
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.
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24 Conclusion Rejected
Department's £850 million ARR cost estimate lacks sufficient evidence for NAO audit assurance.
Conclusion
At the time of publication of the NAO’s report, the Department had not provided the NAO with enough evidence to have confidence in the completeness and accuracy of the Department’s cost estimates.62 The Department estimates the total cost of the … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government rejects separately accounting for the ARR scheme due to complexity but proposes an alternative approach to provide indicative cost allocations for both schemes at the end of each financial year.
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