The government said that information about 18,000 Afghans was accidentally revealed in 2022. A legal order had prevented any reporting on the subject.

Thankfully, around 4,500 Afghans have since been settled in the UK as a direct result of being in danger from the leak, with a further 600 invitations being offered. This is through an until-recently secret emergency scheme called the Afghanistan Response Route (ARR).

Johnny Mercer, the former veterans minister, who was covered by the super-injunction because of his knowledge of the events, told the BBC the breach was representative of the "chaos" around the relocation process, and the individual brought to the UK had used the data to get in.