The table, the superinjunction and the moving scheme: Afghan data leak

Two and a half years ago, a British soldier urged an e -mail that should cost taxpayers hundreds of million pounds and change the life of thousands of people.

This e -mail contained the names and details of more than 18,000 people who had applied to asylum as part of the Afghan resettlement scheme, many of which would have been obvious goals for reprisals by the Taliban.

Since then, more and more people have come to learn something about this leak, and yet the news has remained secret by an extraordinary overview of the government until this week.

After the details of the leak and the subsequent secret resettlement scheme are public, the questions to those who knew what and when knew?

2022

February

Military officers ask a soldier who works with the headquarters of the special units to check the names of people who apply for asylum as part of Afghan moving and auxiliary policy (ARAP).

In the UK, the soldier sends a table with all 18,000 names to Afghan contacts, which you then pass on in Afghanistan. Officials say that the soldier only intended to send 150 names for review, and did not know that the entire database was actually included in the table either in hidden lines or on a hidden tab.

2023

August

The existence of the database, which had remained secret since her show, becomes public when an Afghan who apparently rejected her asylum sayings – threatens to release her on Facebook.

Afghans in the Facebook group alarm British contacts, one of which then tells the then defense minister James Hepey and then the shadow defense minister Luke Pollard by e -mail about the possible security violation.

The Ministry of Defense then works with officials from the MI6 and GCHQ foreign office to identify the source of the leak. Minister from different departments meet together with Gwyn Jenkins, the director of the Special Forces, in the Cobra briefing room to discuss their reaction.

In the meantime, Afghans David Williams, a journalist at The Daily Mail, contact him about history. Williams calls the mod who asks him to hold the publication until they can further examine.

On Friday, August 25th, Ben Wallace, the outgoing Minister of Defense, personally requested an injunction to the courts to prevent the details from becoming public. The injunction should take four months and the government should give time to attract those affected by Afghanistan and bring to Great Britain.

September

Two days after Grant Shapps became a defense secretary, the judge Robin Knowles not only grants the injunction, but also improves them to a super instructor, which means that not only the details of the leak cannot be reported, but also the temporary disposal itself.

November

The officials decide to move initial 150 people who are affected by the leak from Afghanistan to Great Britain under the new and strictly secret Afghanistan reaction route. The total number of use of this route will finally grow to 6,900 when the Labor government concludes it in July 2025.

December

Hepey informs about the leak and reaction about John Healey, then a shadow defense secretary, and at the same time exposed Haley to the superinjunction. Healey takes the legal threat so seriously that he does not tell his party leader Keir Starrer about it.

At this time the spokesman for the Commons House, Lindsay Hoyle, is also made aware of what happened.

2024

April

The Afghanistan reaction route begins with the operation.

May

Judge Martin Chamberlain orders the removal of the super instigation, but the government successfully appeals the decision.

October

After the Labor Minister had entered the government three months earlier, the Minister of Labor decided to redesign the secret reorganization program and to fold it into public.

November

The new government requests to extend the Superin monitoring.

During the hearing, Chamberlain asks how it can be possible for the government during the hearing, the details of what has happened, as what has happened, asks not to be known, since the total costs of all Afghan resettlement systems could now reach £ 7 billion GBP. Nevertheless, he grants the application.

2025

January

Six months after winning the election, Labor decides to commission a review in the options for the secret resettlement system. The Commission is to be directed by Paul Rimmer, a retired official, and reported in the “late spring”. Once again, the government successfully applies to the expansion of the superinjunation.

march

The government invites the conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch to a briefing over the leak and the secret moving scheme, but does not urgently mark it and does not share.

June

Rimmer submits his report and finds “little evidence of the intention of the Taleban [sic] carry out a retaliation campaign ”against the persons mentioned on the list.

The review adds: “The actual data record (compared to some knowledge of the lost“ data ”) may not have spread almost as widespread as it originally feared. We believe that it is unlikely that the data record would be the individual or definitive information that enables the Taleban to act or cause to act. “

The government now says Badenoch that it is “urgent” that it will be informed about the situation, but a meeting will only take place on July 14th.

July

Based on the Rimmer report, Chamberlain says that he has now eliminated the injunction. Three days later, on July 4th, the government ended the secret moving scheme and is used to remove the super instructor.

Chamberlain orders that the Superinjunction will be withdrawn at noon on July 15 to give the government time to contact all other affected people and take protective measures.

topicnews · July 17, 2025

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