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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Bancroft

Ministry of Defence does not know how much has been spent on bringing data-leak Afghans to UK

The government is unable to calculate the total cost of a secret relocation plan it set up following the Afghan data leak, Britain's public spending watchdog has said.

In Ministry of Defence (MoD) accounts, the amount spent on the scheme was not recorded separately to other resettlement activity following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.

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