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1723951

registered interest
date	29/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to assist women in Afghanistan who are at risk because of their activities promoting or supporting women's rights, democracy or human rights to come to the UK as refugees.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/08/2024 answer text <p>The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) currently provide routes for eligible people in Afghanistan to come to the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>The ACRS was designed to support those who have assisted UK efforts in Afghanistan and stood up for UK values, as well as vulnerable people. We have welcomed individuals under all three referral pathways on the ACRS, providing a route for resettlement to the UK for at-risk women and girls in Afghanistan and the region.</p><p> </p><p>Flights are continuing to bring those eligible to the UK at pace.</p> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint question first answered 12/08/2024 09:53:30 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1722108

registered interest
date	18/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who were (a) called forward and (b) authorised for evacuation during Operation Pitting but were not able to board flights have subsequently been resettled under pathway one of the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Ms Stella Creasy
uin	610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2024 answer text <p>The UK has made an important commitment to resettle Afghans fleeing persecution and those who served the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of Afghans who were called forward and not able to board flights who have been subsequently resettled under ACRS Pathway 1 is not captured in the immigration statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#asylum-and-resettlement" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> show that (up to the end of March 2024) around 30,100 people have been brought to safety from Afghanistan and the region.</p><p>These statistics also show that:</p><ul><li>So far 9,703 people have been resettled under ACRS Pathway 1.</li><li>A breakdown of the number of people that have been resettled under this pathway and the other Afghan resettlement routes since the evacuation in August 2021 may be seen in detail in the following table which was published as part of the last immigration statistics release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#asylum-and-resettlement" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#asylum-and-resettlement</a>.</li></ul> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 23/07/2024 14:44:32 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1721205

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether Pathways 1 and 2 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy are fully operational.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL50
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2024 answer text <p>The UK continues to welcome refugees and people in need through existing resettlement schemes which include the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS), Community Sponsorship, the Mandate Resettlement Scheme, and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS).</p><p>Referrals for the UKRS, Community Sponsorship, Mandate Resettlement and Pathway 2 of the ACRS are assessed and submitted by UNHCR. These assessments are based on people’s needs and vulnerabilities and the UK does not seek to influence which cases are referred by UNHCR.</p><p>A route for ACRS Pathway 1 Stage 2: Separated Families was opened on 30 July 2024. The window to submit an expression of interest will remain open until 30 October 2024.</p><p>Those who have been resettled in the UK under Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 1 and were evacuated during Operation Pitting without their immediate family members can submit an expression of interest under this pathway.</p><p>Further information is viewable at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme-separated-families-route" target="_blank">Afghan citizens resettlement scheme: Separated Families Pathway - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The ARAP was launched on 1 April 2021 and remains open. The UK formally opened ACRS on 6 January 2022 and it remains operational.</p><p>The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to help at-risk people in Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 30,100 people to safety, including thousands of people eligible for our Afghan schemes. We continue to honour our commitments to bring eligible Afghans to the UK.</p><p>The data published within the immigration system statistics release <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2024" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics, year ending March 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> provides a breakdown of arrivals by quarter. The number of individuals resettled under the schemes is as follows: 15,592 individuals under ARAP, 9,703 individuals under ACRS Pathway 1, 663 individuals under ACRS Pathway 2 and 1, 207 individuals under ACRS Pathway 3.</p><p>Afghan operational data is viewable on Gov.UK.</p><p>Afghan operational data is released quarterly with the next publication due around the 24 August 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint grouped question UIN HL51 HL52 question first answered 31/07/2024 15:31:32 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1721206

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many Afghans have been successfully resettled in the UK under Pathways 1 and 2 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL51
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2024 answer text <p>The UK continues to welcome refugees and people in need through existing resettlement schemes which include the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS), Community Sponsorship, the Mandate Resettlement Scheme, and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS).</p><p>Referrals for the UKRS, Community Sponsorship, Mandate Resettlement and Pathway 2 of the ACRS are assessed and submitted by UNHCR. These assessments are based on people’s needs and vulnerabilities and the UK does not seek to influence which cases are referred by UNHCR.</p><p>A route for ACRS Pathway 1 Stage 2: Separated Families was opened on 30 July 2024. The window to submit an expression of interest will remain open until 30 October 2024.</p><p>Those who have been resettled in the UK under Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 1 and were evacuated during Operation Pitting without their immediate family members can submit an expression of interest under this pathway.</p><p>Further information is viewable at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme-separated-families-route" target="_blank">Afghan citizens resettlement scheme: Separated Families Pathway - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The ARAP was launched on 1 April 2021 and remains open. The UK formally opened ACRS on 6 January 2022 and it remains operational.</p><p>The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to help at-risk people in Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 30,100 people to safety, including thousands of people eligible for our Afghan schemes. We continue to honour our commitments to bring eligible Afghans to the UK.</p><p>The data published within the immigration system statistics release <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2024" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics, year ending March 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> provides a breakdown of arrivals by quarter. The number of individuals resettled under the schemes is as follows: 15,592 individuals under ARAP, 9,703 individuals under ACRS Pathway 1, 663 individuals under ACRS Pathway 2 and 1, 207 individuals under ACRS Pathway 3.</p><p>Afghan operational data is viewable on Gov.UK.</p><p>Afghan operational data is released quarterly with the next publication due around the 24 August 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint grouped question UIN HL50 HL52 question first answered 31/07/2024 15:31:32 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1721207

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether Pathways 1 and 2 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy are the only safe and legal routes to the United Kingdom for Afghans, including children still stranded in Afghanistan.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL52
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2024 answer text <p>The UK continues to welcome refugees and people in need through existing resettlement schemes which include the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS), Community Sponsorship, the Mandate Resettlement Scheme, and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS).</p><p>Referrals for the UKRS, Community Sponsorship, Mandate Resettlement and Pathway 2 of the ACRS are assessed and submitted by UNHCR. These assessments are based on people’s needs and vulnerabilities and the UK does not seek to influence which cases are referred by UNHCR.</p><p>A route for ACRS Pathway 1 Stage 2: Separated Families was opened on 30 July 2024. The window to submit an expression of interest will remain open until 30 October 2024.</p><p>Those who have been resettled in the UK under Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 1 and were evacuated during Operation Pitting without their immediate family members can submit an expression of interest under this pathway.</p><p>Further information is viewable at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme-separated-families-route" target="_blank">Afghan citizens resettlement scheme: Separated Families Pathway - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The ARAP was launched on 1 April 2021 and remains open. The UK formally opened ACRS on 6 January 2022 and it remains operational.</p><p>The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to help at-risk people in Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 30,100 people to safety, including thousands of people eligible for our Afghan schemes. We continue to honour our commitments to bring eligible Afghans to the UK.</p><p>The data published within the immigration system statistics release <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2024" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics, year ending March 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> provides a breakdown of arrivals by quarter. The number of individuals resettled under the schemes is as follows: 15,592 individuals under ARAP, 9,703 individuals under ACRS Pathway 1, 663 individuals under ACRS Pathway 2 and 1, 207 individuals under ACRS Pathway 3.</p><p>Afghan operational data is viewable on Gov.UK.</p><p>Afghan operational data is released quarterly with the next publication due around the 24 August 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint grouped question UIN HL50 HL51 question first answered 31/07/2024 15:31:32 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1717611

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2024 to Question 22008 on Refugees: Afghanistan, what his planned timetable is for establishing a route for separated families to be reunited.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	25921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>In October we committed to establishing a route for those evacuated from Afghanistan under Pathway 1 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme without their immediate family members to reunite them in the UK. We remain on track to meet that commitment in the first half of this year. Further details and guidance will be provided in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 16/05/2024 14:44:03 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1713858

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the judgment of HR & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 786 (Admin) of 11 April 2024, whether it his policy to (a) develop a referral process to allow eligible parents and their immediate family members to be resettled under pathway one of the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme and (b) begin to accept referrals under that route in the first half of 2024.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	23813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>I can confirm that it is our intention, as was made clear through the judgment referenced, to establish a route for those evacuated from Afghanistan under Pathway 1 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme without their immediate family members to be reunited in the UK. We remain on track to open the route for referrals in the first half of this year. Further details will be provided in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 30/04/2024 12:31:44 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1702550

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to publish draft guidance on the family reunion route for Afghan nationals under pathway one of the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	22746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>We committed to opening the route for separated families under Pathway 1 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) for referrals in the first half of this year and we remain on track to meet that deadline. Guidance will be published when the route is opened.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 29/04/2024 15:58:24 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1702256

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan (a) principals and (b) dependents are being housed in hotel accommodation under the (i) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (ii) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	22463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to resettle Afghans fleeing persecution and those who served the UK.</p><p>The latest published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-december-2023" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics, year ending December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> show that (up to the end of December 2023) we have brought around 27,900 people to safety from Afghanistan and the region.</p><p>These statistics also show that:</p><ul><li>We have resettled 10,520 people under all three of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) pathways;</li><li>We have relocated 14,423 under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP); and</li></ul><ul><li>125 people, around half of whom are children, were living in interim accommodation (i.e. hotels/serviced accommodation) at the end of December 2023.</li></ul><p>Afghan operational data is viewable at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data" target="_blank">Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/04/2024 09:20:50 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1702257

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many Afghans under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme are in temporary accommodation provided under local authority homelessness provision.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	22464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The department continues to monitor homelessness in these groups, and further data will be published on this in due course. This will be available here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fhomelessness-management-information-afghan-nationals-england&amp;data=05%7C02%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C530f6e0fb5154df1f7c408dc63adfd9e%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638494846133079939%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=OGqoFT5QfJZmRnECRQr5Z%2B4FvH%2FoASN0Mfyx2rVVT%2Fs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-management-information-afghan-nationals-england</a>.</p><p>We publish data on this subject on an ad hoc basis that is voluntarily provided by local authorities. The last time information was published was in September 2023 and related to 1 July 2023 to 31 August 2023. This data was published to monitor the success of the move of Afghans out of hotels into settled accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Kensington answering member printed Felicity Buchan grouped question UIN 22465 question first answered 23/04/2024 16:10:37 answering member 4821 label Biography information for Felicity Buchan
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey