UK government auditor questions MoD disclosures of Afghan data leak

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The official government auditor in the United Kingdom questioned dealing with the Ministry of Defense, with huge data leaking, which was exposed to thousands of Afghan citizens and kept secret for two years.

The National Auditing Office, an independent parliamentary body that examines public spending, told the Financial Times that the Ministry of Defense did not tell it about the leakage “in the specific way of sensitive defense issues.”

The body said Gareth Davis, financial observer and general reference to NAO, was now “given the effects of MD accounts and the NAO money audit program.”

“The Ministry of Defense did not disclose this issue to NAO in the way in force in sensitive defense matters. The director of the MD audit was informed on a limited side (the truth of data breach) and this information was not allowed to participate in NAO.”

The news comes a day after the Supreme Court lifted super functions that prevented the media from reporting that approximately 24,000 Afghans are affected by rags have already been brought or will come to the United Kingdom. The officials said that most of them were eligible to come to the United Kingdom in any case.

In February 2022, a British soldier leaked from a database from applicants to a chart for Afghan who worked with the United Kingdom before the Taliban was rewritten in 2021. The leakage was not discovered until August 2023 and a short period after imposing a super function.

The Ministry of Defense claimed that it had reached an understanding with NAO to obtain a “limited” description of the accident more than usual to be included in the administration’s accounts last year, according to the court papers.

This was set to be a narrow “narrative” signal to this issue. But the report published by the Ministry, which was released last July, deleted until the agreed formulation.

Unfortunately, for unseen reasons for me, the narrative response was not provided [MoD annual] “The same report has not been repeated the agreed approach.”

He said that the proposed treatment for this “deficiency” is to provide “a footnote with an additional context” in the management accounts this year.

NAO FT official told the office that “had no role in a decision on whether or not the accident would be revealed.

The Ministry of Defense said it had “made all reasonable efforts to provide information to NAO, while compliance with the conditions of the high job granted by the Supreme Court.

“Now that the court order is raised, the Ministry of Defense will work alongside NAO to ensure the accuracy of the annual audits and accounts.”

The previous conservative government has established a secret plan for immigration known as the Afghan response path to obtain people whose data were leaked from Afghanistan and to the United Kingdom.

The database that was leaked was the personal details of 25,000 people on it. UK officials have indicated that many worked in the former Afghanistan government, but not directly with the United Kingdom.

The cost of the secret deportation plan recently in February this year was estimated during the current work administration of Sir Starmer, at 7 billion pounds over several years, according to a government note.

Defense Secretary John Healy said that the secret plan will cost about 850 million pounds over his life because the ministers were limiting the number of people to be transferred.

“There is no little or no evidence for the presence of a continuous systematic retaliation campaign [in Afghanistan]He said.

The number of 850 million pounds only relates to the cost of transporting people via the ARR Plan. There is also a group of at least 1,000 people who say the government that the general plan says, but they were not eligible if their data is not leaked.

Healy said about 7,000 people in total will come across ARR. The largest number includes 24,000 Afghans coming through public transport plans.

He also said that all the people who were transferred to Britain under the ARR plan have been included in the official immigration data collected and published by the Ministry of Interior. Court papers show that this only started in February this year.

On Wednesday, Starmer criticized the Conservative Party on the episode, and told the deputies: “The ministers who served under the opposite party have serious questions to answer how this will occur at all.”

Downting Street also said conservative opposition leader Kimi Badnouche had refused to inform the data leakage earlier this year.

Badnosh spokeswoman said she had received many of these offers and that these offers were not included as “urgent”. They added that it was launched on Monday when the case was described as urgent.

Starmer was not aware of this case when the opposition leader was. According to the court’s disclosure, Healy, the defense minister at the time, has rejected the Starmer offer.

The Minister of Defense shared in the shadow that he did not believe that the opposition leader needed a briefing at that time [December 2023] Natalie Moore, a MD official of the Supreme Court in January 2024, said this view is changing on a later date, “Natalie Moore, an MD official of the Supreme Court in January 2024.

“I made a decision that the most important priority is to protect those who could have been leakage from data or were subjected to it in Afghanistan, and I live between the Taliban,” Ben Wallace, who was the conservative defense minister at a time when data leakage was discovered in 2023.

Wallace added that he assumed “full responsibility” for the leakage of data because he was the Foreign Minister at that time.