More than 7,300 Afghans to be resettled in UK after MoD data leak, says National Audit Office | Ministry of Defence

According to a National Audit Office report, which shows doubts about a cost allegations of £ 850 million, a large government is expected to re -settle in the UK more than 7,300 as a result of a data violation.

In 2022, a mod official by a MOD official, the accidental leakage of the 18,700 Afghan details working for the British government or the British government, led to the opening of a new route in which endangered people could replace the UK from their own countries.

Mode expects 7,355 people to re -settle during the Afghanistan response route (ARR) as a direct consequence of the violation, including the family members of the affected.

The guard said he could not calculate the exact cost of the government’s response. 850 million pounds did not include legal costs or compensation requests, and by NaO, the doubts about the “integrity and accuracy of the basic figure were increased.

Nao said: “As of July 2025, the government estimates that the government spent about 400 million pounds to re -place people through Arr, and will spend another 450 million pounds on the plan.

“Mode predicted that the costs of the entire government were £ 128,000 per the re -established individual, which will be covered by £ 53,000. During the publication, the mode did not provide us with enough evidence to avoid confidence in the completeness and accuracy of these estimates.”

The electronic table, which is mistakenly shared by MOD, consists of 33.345 data lines containing the names and contact information of the applicants and in some cases the information about the applicants’ family members.

Nao said that the mode did not save how much it spends to re -place people through the Arr scheme, because it did not define these costs separately in the accounting system separately.

The government said that while preventing the disclosure of both data violations and the existence of precautionary measures, it was to protect the confidentiality of the Arr plan.

After the discovery of the data violation on 25 August 2023, he applied to the Supreme Court for a precautionary measure to prevent the mode data loss from being explained to the public. Seven days later, when the court accepted the risk assessment of a judge’s mode for the safety and lives of many individuals and his family, a Superinjunction, which also prevented the existence of the existence of precautionary measures.

The next examination in January 2025 suggested that the cost and scale of the opening of the new displacement path was not proportional to additional risk for those whose data were violated. Defense Secretary John Healey closed Arr and the reporting precautionary measure fell in July.

Sir Geoffrey Cliftton-Brown, President of the Public Accounts Committee of Public Accounts Committee, said, “After the Supreme Court Superinjunction has been abolished earlier this year, the confusion of 850 million pounds, which have not been able to provide sufficient assurance over the numbers of MOD, is still on the date of confusion and future costs.

“This figure does not include all unknown unknown legal costs or compensation requests. PAC will examine these problems in our investigation next week, and Nao is more of a study to provide transparency on the figures in the upcoming reports of Afghan re -settlement schemes, while many of those who need to come in the UK.”