PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Refugees: Afghanistan (18 July 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who were (a) called forward and (b) authorised for evacuation during Operation Pitting but were not able to board flights have subsequently been resettled under pathway one of the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.

Asked by:
Ms Stella Creasy (Labour)

The UK has made an important commitment to resettle Afghans fleeing persecution and those who served the UK.

Data on the number of Afghans who were called forward and not able to board flights who have been subsequently resettled under ACRS Pathway 1 is not captured in the immigration statistics.

The latest published Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) show that (up to the end of March 2024) around 30,100 people have been brought to safety from Afghanistan and the region.

These statistics also show that:

• So far 9,703 people have been resettled under ACRS Pathway 1.
• A breakdown of the number of people that have been resettled under this pathway and the other Afghan resettlement routes since the evacuation in August 2021 may be seen in detail in the following table which was published as part of the last immigration statistics release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#asylum-and-resettlement.

Answered by:
Seema Malhotra (Labour)
23 July 2024