Question follow-through · 95362

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where companies his Department has signed contracts with in relation to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy are based by local authority.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 28 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 2 Dec 2025
Answer: 8 Dec 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

28 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where companies his Department has signed contracts with in relation to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy are based by local authority.
2 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
The total cost of the Afghan Response Programme (ARP) to the end of financial year 2024-25 is approximately £2.7 billion. The costs are shared cross-Government. This figure includes spend on contracts that were already acquired by the Ministry of Defence ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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