Response to Senate question about Act of Grace applications relating to the Afghanistan Inquiry

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This FOI release contains a Senate question on notice (Q231) asked by Senator David Shoebridge on 26 August 2025, with a draft response from the Department of Finance. The question sought a breakdown of applications to the Afghanistan Inquiry Compensation Scheme, including numbers referred to the Compensation Advocate, Chief of Defence Force actions, and applications referred to the Department of Finance's Act of Grace program or other non-Defence redress pathways. The Finance response, cleared on 3 September 2025, states that Finance has not approved any claims under the Act of Grace mechanism in relation to the Afghanistan Inquiry, so no monetary value or one-off or recurring payment breakdown applies. The released text does not include the Defence answers to the other parts of the question, and it contains no contract values, procurement details or probity concerns.