The MoD’s Afghan data breach is turning out to be far pricier than ministers let on. The National Audit Office now says up to 27,278 Afghans could be brought to Britain after the leak, nearly 4,000 more than first expected. The higher total comes from ARAP applicants reapplying before the scheme closed in July…
Labour has been spinning that resettling 7,355 people through the secret Afghan Response Route would cost £850 million. Yet NAO auditors say the MoD hasn’t provided “sufficient evidence” to back up its figures. That doesn’t even cover Afghans admitted through other routes – or, as Guido revealed, the £2.5 million (and counting) in legal costs…
At £128,000 per resettled individual, bringing 27,278 Afghans to the UK would cost the government roughly £3.49 billion. Talk about a black hole…