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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4, for Tuesday the 15th of July,

when the Defence Secretary revealed that personal information about thousands of Afghans was leaked by mistake.

To all those whose information was compromised, I offer a sincere apology today on behalf of the British government.

Thames Water is accused of game playing as company bosses are recalled for questioning by MPs.

It's certainly not clear to me just in whose interest you are all working.

And the Conservatives urge ministers not to do away with the two-child benefit cap.

When working couples are having to make tough decisions about whether they can afford to start

a family in the first place, they should not be made to pay more in taxes whether they can afford to start a family in the first place,

they should not be made to pay more in taxes to fund their neighbour to have a third, fourth or fifth child. But first, the Defence Secretary John Healy has revealed that the Conservative

Government set up a secret relocation scheme to bring people to the UK after the names of thousands of Afghans who'd worked with British forces were leaked by mistake by a defence official in February 2022.

This official mistakenly believed that they were sending the names of 150 applicants.

However, the spreadsheet in fact contained

personal information associated to 18,714 Afghans who had applied either to the excretia

or the ARAP scheme on or before the 7th of January 2022.

Arap is the resettlement scheme the government set up to process applications from people

who were at risk of reprisals from the Taliban.

This was a serious departmental error.

It was in clear breach of strict data protection protocols and it was one of many data

losses relating to the Arab scheme during this period. He said defence ministers only found out

about the leak 18 months later when information about nine people was posted online. The government

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