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HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanI understand the strength of feeling on this subject, and this question gives me the opportunity to set out where we are with the Afghan relocations and assistance policy and…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanOn the criteria for the ARAP scheme, I point the right hon. Lady to the website, but what I can say generically is that contractors and the directly employed, if they come under…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanI think the best way to do it is by personal supervision. I fundamentally agree with the right hon. Gentleman’s point. We are in a world with even more data and we have to be even…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanIf my hon. Friend accepts that it will be rolling, because it is moving, I will be happy to write to him with details of a fixed period of time. Obviously those vast amounts were…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanYes, the ARAP scheme is open-ended. It will continue and it is an obligation we will stand by. I suspect that, given the nature of that part of the world, people will come through…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanI think that the lesson learned is that this was an evacuation in the 21st century in which emails, WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook were a running commentary, but the inboxes of…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanThe assurance that I can give is only limited, I am afraid, given that we are no longer in Afghanistan and given the actions of the Taliban. I think that to give a 100% assurance…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanIn answer to the question from the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) about how we communicate one-to-one versus mass, the one-to-one…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanThe right hon. Member makes some points that I would say are deservedly landed, and I hear what he says. First, yes, we mass email individuals, but we also email individually.…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanThe hon. Lady has raised a challenging case. The person concerned is probably an adult, she is not herself the interpreter, and he worked for a third country. However, if the hon.…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanAmong the 50 personnel working on the ARAP scheme in PJHQ, there are a number embedded in other Departments whose main job is to liaise on everything from Parliament all the way…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanThe first thing to do is establish contact with as many of them as possible, which we are doing, and I have offered to update the House on how many we have contacted. I will see…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanAs I have said, they will be contacted or have been contacted. Where, on a one-to-one basis, there is a case management process, we will try to tailor advice on…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanThe right hon. Member puts his question very well. I will be happy to update the House on the threat situation, both for Afghans who worked for us and for us in the United Kingdom…21 Sept 2021HANSARDData Breach: ARAP Applicants in AfghanistanI understand the hon. Member’s desire to manage his individual cases, but we are doing everything we can with the people who are referred to us, either via Members or directly…21 Sept 2021HANSARDDaesh and Global AffiliatesThank you, Mr Speaker, for hosting the G7 in Chorley at the weekend, and for the warm welcome you gave to many of my colleagues from across the House in that excellent showcase of…20 Sept 2021HANSARDDaesh and Global AffiliatesI thank my hon. Friend for his kind comments. I am also delighted that my whole team has remained together on the Front Bench. I cannot remember that happening in any other…20 Sept 2021HANSARDDaesh and Global AffiliatesThe right hon. Member will be referring to a report by the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy that he has commented on previously. The report makes a number of…20 Sept 2021HANSARDNuclear Warhead ProgrammeI am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving me the opportunity to make something very clear about the agreement with Australia and the United States. This is not a programme about…20 Sept 2021HANSARDNuclear Warhead ProgrammeThe hon. Member has obviously missed the point that we have nationalised Aldermaston recently in completely the opposite direction.20 Sept 2021