To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme received a decision in each month since August 2020; and what proportion of those decisions were approvals.
Answered on
18 May 2022
The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme was launched on 1 April 2021 and has been one of the most generous relocation programmes in the world.
Due to constraints on accessible data, the information requested is only available from October 2021 onwards and can be found in the table below:
Month | Decisions Made |
October 2021 | 706 |
November 2021 | 1,450 |
December 2021 | 803 |
January 2022 | 477 |
February 2022 | 409 |
March 2022 | 451 |
April 2022 | 799 |
May 2022 (up to 12 May) | 234 |
Of all the decisions made over this period, 8.4% were approved.