Overview
- Treasury Supply Estimates set out a £2,564,517,000 prior‑year adjustment and say authority will be sought by an Excess Vote.
- The adjustment relates to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and the Afghanistan Response Route, with ARR costs estimated at up to £850 million.
- Documents acknowledge the MoD withheld information from the National Audit Office during the 2023–24 audit and failed to reflect the impact in Main or Supplementary Estimates.
- The MoD now estimates the Afghan Resettlement Programme will total roughly £5.5–6 billion and has not provided a detailed public breakdown of the adjustment.
- The schemes followed a 2022 leak exposing details of 18,714 applicants; a lifted High Court injunction brought a judicial rebuke that ministers misled Parliament, and media have reported total approvals near £7 billion.