Healey: ‘No justification for most names in Afghan data leak to claim asylum in Britain’
Healey admits most people caught up in MoD data leak not eligible for UK asylum
- Defence Minister John Healey says there is no justification for most Afghan people identified in the Ministry of Defence data leak to claim asylum, as they had no connection to Britain's armed forces.
- Mr Healey said that the majority of names in the leaked dataset were not eligible for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme.
- The data breach, which wrongly released the details of more than 16,000 Afghans and raised fears they could be targeted by the Taliban, was described by Mr Healey as a serious departmental error.
- However, he said there was never a plan to bring everyone from that dataset into the UK.
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