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Question follow-through · 49543

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the houses reacquired in January 2025 have been used to house Afghan families as part of (a) Operation Lazurite and (b) the Afghan Resettlement Scheme.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
6 May 2025
Answer
12 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the houses reacquired in January 2025 have been used to house Afghan families as part of (a) Operation Lazurite and (b) the Afghan Resettlement Scheme.

  2. 6 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 May 2025

    Answer published

    Operation LAZURITE is the Ministry of Defence operational contribution to the cross-Government Afghan Resettlement Programme (ARP). As at 1 May 2025, of the properties re-acquired by the Department in January 2025, 852 houses are allocated for ARP support...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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