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The current and previous British governments are facing criticism over a secret program that resettled thousands of Afghans in the U.K. after the Taliban's return to power in 2021

John Healey has said there is “no justification” for most of the names in Afghan data leak to claim asylum, stating that the majority of individuals had no connection to Britain’s armed forces.

Air Marshal Smyth’s appointment follows a series of promotions to command positions since becoming an Air Commodore in 2015.

Defence secretary says it was ‘never the plan to bring everyone’ on dataset to UK, while Ben Wallace denies Tories sought superinjunction

Thousands of people have been relocated to the UK as part of a secret scheme set up after data on Afghans who supported British forces was leaked.

At Prime Minister’s Questions, he sought to blame the previous Government for the data blunder which was kept quiet with a super injunction

Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

The government data breach of about 18,900 Afghans who had worked for Britain and British interests, and the attempts to conceal much of the detail under a legal superinjunction, are bewildering, convoluted and shameful. In all, the lives of some 80,000 Afghans and their families may have been put at…

Sir Ben was defence secretary when a spreadsheet containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 Afghans was released ‘in error’ in February 2022

Ex-Tory defence secretary says the decision to apply for the gagging order was ‘not, as some are childishly trying to claim, a cover-up’

Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret £850 million scheme set up in the wake of the breach.