Question follow-through · 26781
Afghanistan: Resettlement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghans who worked directly for British forces were brought to the UK under (a) Operation Lazurite and (b) its predecessor schemes.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghans who worked directly for British forces were brought to the UK under (a) Operation Lazurite and (b) its predecessor schemes.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2025
Answer published
Operation LAZURITE supports the Afghan Resettlement Programme announced in December. It is not in itself a scheme, rather a delivery component that assists parts of the end-to-end process of Afghan relocation and resettlement into the UK. Over 30,000 elig...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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