Overview

• The High Court lifted the contra mundum superinjunction on July 15 following an independent review that found no evidential basis for continued secrecy.
• Defence officials offered relocation to 23,900 Afghan applicants from the leaked ARAP database, with more than 16,000 already evacuated to the UK.
• The Afghanistan Response Route has cost about £850 million to date, well below the initial £7 billion estimate for the full evacuation operation.
• Over 650 Afghans affected by the breach have initiated compensation claims against the MoD, seeking hundreds of millions of pounds in damages.
• At least 17 individuals named in the leaked dataset are believed to have been killed by the Taliban, prompting MPs to call for a formal inquiry into the department’s data safeguards.