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54th Report - Afghanistan Response Route
Public Accounts Committee
HC 1391
Published 14 November 2025
Conclusions (1)
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Conclusion
Rejected
The Department did not put in place a mechanism to accurately identify and account for the costs of resettling individuals who were at high risk due to the data breach. The Department accounted for the costs of the ARR within its total spending on Afghan resettlement schemes, rather than identifying …
Government Response Summary
The government rejected the recommendation to capture Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) costs separately due to complexity, proposing instead to provide an indicative cost allocation for both schemes at the end of each financial year via an average cost per person calculation.