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topicnews · July 20, 2025

First minister who was not informed after a massive British GOV data leak

First minister who was not informed after a massive British GOV data leak

Defense Minister John Healey confirmed that a super injunction that prohibits reporting on the Ministry of Defense should be lifted last week.

The British army staff works at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan(Picture: Mod/AFP via Getty Images)))

A massive data leak and a secret system to bring more than 18,000 endangered Afghans to Great Britain was hidden from cabinet ministers and the Scottish government.

Defense Minister John Healey confirmed that a super injunction that prohibits reporting on the Ministry of Defense should be lifted last week.

He revealed that the personal details of thousands of Afghans who applied for re -seal in Great Britain after the Taliban had taken power in Afghanistan had been leaked in 2022.

They had applied for the Afghan moving and auxiliary politics (Arap) of the British government-for those who had helped the British armed forces during the 20-year conflict.

The personal details of the staff for special forces have now emerged, and spies have also been affected.

SNP defense spokesman Dave Doogan
SNP defense spokesman Dave Doogan

Dave Doogan, the defense spokesman for the SNP [several] Lecks that we know about.

“It therefore has the appearance of institutional incompetence, which is summarized by the former foreign minister due to an annoying lack of ministerial grip.”

The then Defense Minister of Tories, Ben Wallace, was only told 18 months after the conclusion when details were mentioned on the leaked data on Facebook.

The mod set up a secret scheme, the Afghan reaction route (ARR), to shift the mentioned. About 6900 people were relocated with this program, estimated around £ 800 million.

Wallace personally applied for an injunction to prevent the media from reporting the informed scandal or information from the parliamentarians.

The gagmings should only take four months, but followed as Grant Shapps Wallace, she was upgraded for super instructor and stayed in place until last week.

The Sunday post has now learned that no other ministers than Wallace, Shapps and the then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak were told about the scandal.

An ex-cabinet minister said: “We were not informed.”

And although the mod has set up an entire system for resettlement of Afghans whose data had been compromised, including the housing buildings in Scotland, they were able to inform Humza Yousaf, who was the first minister at the time.

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Senior Scottish Government Sources said they were not told. One consultant said: “We didn't know anything about John Healey and Humza's others at that time.

The Labor government applied for the superinjunction to extend three times – in May and November last year and in January – and commissioned a review of which options they had to put to an end for the ARR.

The report of the retired official Paul Rimmer found [sic] carry out a retaliation campaign. “

It continued that the infiltrated data “may not have spread almost as widespread as it initially feared. We believe that it is unlikely that the data record would be the individual or definitive information that the Taleban enables or cause to act.”

Thousands of Afghans have settled in Scotland since the Taliban took power in 2021. There, thousands will continue to live there.

Doogan said: “When the current State Secretary for Defense brought us the houses in this chaos into the houses in Parliament.

He said that the government's confidence in the rimmer report “showed an astonishing degree of complacency between members of a bureaucracy, whose collective and persistent incompetence, as I was very feared, left the brave Afghans, wherever they hide, the brave Afghans to endure even greater threats.”

The mod said: “As the Defense Minister joined in his declaration, there was a super injunction, which means that they could not inform others and the knowledge was kept in a close subject.”

A spokesman for the Scottish government said: “Before declaring the British Minister of Defense to the House of Commons, we were not drawn attention to this problem.

“This incident is clearly deeply worrying and we call on the British government to ensure that it prioritizes the security and protection of the people concerned.”

The 18,714 Afghans, which are feared for the leak of repressors from Taliban, is unlikely to receive compensation. The mod said any claims are robustly defended.

This month, the minister of the armed forces, Luke Pollard, announced compensation of £ 1.6 million for a separate incident with the release of the data of the Afghan nationals.