Question follow-through · 91908

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the companies his Department has contracts with under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 18 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 20 Nov 2025
Answer: 26 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the companies his Department has contracts with under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
I am withholding the list of companies that the Ministry of Defence has contracts with under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) as its disclosure would prejudice the commercial interests of the Ministry of Defence; and the information is ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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