Overview

• A super-injunction issued over the 2022 spreadsheet leak prevented journalists from reporting Gen Sir Gwyn Jenkins’s involvement when he was named First Sea Lord in May
• The leaked data exposed personal details of about 25,000 Afghan applicants and remained undisclosed for 18 months until ministers created a bespoke evacuation programme
• Downing Street insists Jenkins neither authorised nor participated in sending the spreadsheet and had no role in Afghan resettlement decisions
• Prime Minister Keir Starmer publicly affirmed full confidence in Jenkins despite renewed scrutiny of his past roles
• Parliamentary defence and intelligence committees are preparing inquiries into the leak’s fallout and the government’s use of legal secrecy