Grant Shapps defends the use of Superinjunction to suppress Afghan data leaks | Grant Shapps

Former Defense Minister Grant Shapps has defended the use of an unprecedented superinjunation to suppress a data injury, which led to the British government shifted 15,000 Afghans.

The Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) was created in a hurry after personal information about 18,700 Afghans had come from a British defense officer in early 2022.

It has also turned out that details of the members of the SAS and MI6 belonged to more than 100 British mentioned in the database.

Shapps, who was defense secretary from August 31, 2023 to July 5, 2024, spoke in the BBC Radio 4 program from BBC Radio 4 and was in the mail, while the super emotion was imposed on the incident. After the leak, his focus was on the sorting out of chaos and saving life “.

The superin monitoring fell on Tuesday when a judge at the High Court came to the conclusion that the threat of the 18,700 Afghans was no longer very important.

He said to the program: “My focus was on two things … one that sorted out chaos and saved life, and two to ensure that systems were available, which should be honestly always available to ensure that this type of sensitive information could never be sent.

“There were British special units and secret services on this list. It seemed to me that a super instrument, if at all, had doubts that this was completely justified.”

He added: “In view of the choice of whether this list would get out and the people persecuted, murdered and executed or doing something to save them, I would much rather be in this interview and explain why super radiation was necessary than explaining in this interview why I was not acted and murdered people.”

The Parliament's intelligence and security committee, which the British espionage agencies monitored, said that it would be checked what had happened after an examination of the Commons Defense Select Committee.

The ISC asked for all secret service ratings that had been shared to the High Court in the secret to pass them on with the committee. His chairman Kevan Jones, who is also known as Lord Beamish, asked why “Material in relation to data loss” could not be passed on with the committee early, since it routinely checked a classified material.

“I think there are serious constitutional issues here,” Beamish told BBC Radio Scotland.

When asked whether he supported calls to the committee for the publication of a secret service investigation that formed the basis for the super instance, Shapps said: “Yes, I would do it.”

He added that he knew that the committee had the fact that the incident had been kept secret, “it was just so sensitive that it would put this life in danger if anything had come out”.

Although Shapps held during his term as Minister of Defense, which lasted almost a year, he said that he was “surprised” that it had stayed for “so long”.

“I don't think it should continue for so long. I am surprised that it is these questions for others,” he said. “But I came in, the problem was there, I dealt with it, and as a result I think we saved life.”

In a statement on Tuesday, after the super instructor was lifted, Defense Minister John Healey offered a “sincere apology” on behalf of the government for the data injury.