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1139315

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2019 to Question 276276, whether the reasons for a decision sent to a claimant will include HMRC and DWP data checks on the claimant's employment or benefits history.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	277851
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Letters setting out a final decision for a claim made under the Windrush Compensation Scheme will reference any payments made by another Government department.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/07/2019 16:03:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1149360

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had with the office of Wendy Williams on a timetable for taking delivery of the final report of the Windrush lessons learned review.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The Windrush Lessons Learned Review is an independent review, and all engagement must respect this independence. As expected for this type of review, the Department and the review team have engaged routinely and will continue to use this engagement to confirm the timetable for delivery of the final report.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 30/10/2019 17:32:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1167794

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is aware of meetings that have taken place between the office of Wendy Williams and stakeholder (a) individuals and (b) organisations on the Windrush lessons learned review.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	8596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>We are aware that the review has engaged with a broad range of stakeholders as set out in the published methodology. As the review is independent, other than those publicly advertised, the detail of that engagement is not known by the Department.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/11/2019 17:22:40 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1167795

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date her Department will publish a timetable for delivery of the final report of the Windrush lessons learned review.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	8613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Once the final report has been received, we will publish as soon as practicable.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/11/2019 17:05:05 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1167796

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times officials in her Department have met with the office of Wendy Williams.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	8614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p><strong><em>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution</em></strong>.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/11/2019 16:55:27 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1179199

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to protect the human rights of migrants from the Windrush generation.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	18971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office, in its policies and its practices, must be compliant with its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights as enacted under the Human Rights Act.</p><p>We are committed to righting the wrongs suffered by the Windrush generation, under successive goverments and have put in place a number of steps to do this. On 16 April 2018, the Home Office established a Taskforce to help members of the Windrush generation resolve their immigration status as quickly as possible and the Windrush Scheme was launched on 30 May 2018.</p><p>On 3 April 2019, the Windrush Compensation Scheme was launched in order to ensure that the Windrush generation, are properly compensated for losses and impacts suffered as a result of not being able to demonstrate their lawful status.</p><p>We have introduced additional safeguards to ensure that those who are lawfully present in the UK are not disadvantaged by measures put in place to tackle illegal migration. These include additional support within the checking services provided to employers, landlords and public service providers and temporary restrictions on the parameters of proactive data-sharing, to ensure members of the Windrush generation are not wrongly impacted.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 02/03/2020 16:32:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1471829

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the report commissioned by her Department entitled, The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal; and if she will make a statement on that report.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	21232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal report was commissioned by the Home Office to form part of an internal learning resource to improve understanding of the historical development of immigration policy, in response to Recommendation 6 of the Windrush Lessons Learned Review by Wendy Williams.</p><p>The report was written by a historian who was independent from the Home Office and does not represent government policy. The views included in the report are those of the author.</p><p>We have already made good progress against Wendy Williams’ recommendations. She highlighted many achievements, including the work we have put into becoming a more compassionate and open organisation. Yet we know there is more to do. Many people suffered terrible injustices at the hands of successive Governments, so we will continue working hard to deliver a Home Office worthy of every community we serve.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 27/06/2022 11:41:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 8635 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1183729

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to identify how many people who belong to the Windrush generation have been wrongly prevented from re-entry to the UK after an overseas visit.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
	uin	27049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2020 answer text <p><strong> </strong>The Home Office is undertaking a significant programme of engagement and communication activity to raise awareness of the support available to members of the Windrush generation who have been impacted, including those who have been wrongly prevented from re-entry to the UK after an overseas visit.</p><p>We have hosted over 100 engagement and outreach events across the country and are undertaking a programme of online engagement events. More information can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/windrush-engagement-events" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/windrush-engagement-events</a>. We will shortly be launching a national advertising and grassroots campaign to encourage more people to come forward and have worked closely with a range of stakeholders with excellent community links to raise awareness. We are also developing plans with our British Embassies and High Commissions for additional bespoke activity in priority countries overseas.</p><p>Unfortunately, the Home Office does not hold data on the number of people who belong to the Windrush generation who have been prevented from re-entry to the UK after an overseas visit. However, the Department has conducted a historical review of Caribbean Commonwealth nationals, born before 1 January 1973, removed or detained since 2002, to identify those whose records indicate they came to the UK before 1973. The Home Office wrote to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 21 August 2018 with the initial findings of this review and has provided regular updates to the committee. This correspondence can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush</a></p><p>Anyone who is a member of the Windrush generation and thinks they have been wrongly denied re-entry to the UK can apply to the Windrush Taskforce for a returning residents visa, and to the Windrush Compensation Scheme for compensation, should they wish to.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 04/08/2020 16:56:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1135557

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the status is of his Department's internal investigation into the causes of the Windrush scandal; and when he plans to publish the final report of that investigation.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
	uin	270727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>This is an independent review being led by Wendy Williams, and its independence is crucial to its effectiveness. We are committed to providing Wendy with the time and resources needed to conduct her review to make sure that we learn from, and right the wrongs of the past.</p><p>The Department has not yet received Wendy Williams’ Lessons Learned Review. On receipt it will be published as soon as practicable.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 03/07/2019 15:37:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1138997

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Women of 11 July 2019, Official Report column 439, what forms of documentation have been provided to each of the more than 6,400 applicants to the Windrush scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
	uin	277132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The Home Secretary provides the Home Affairs Select Committee with monthly updates on the work of the department in connection with Windrush. This includes information on decisions made by the Taskforce under the Windrush Scheme. The correspondence can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush</a></p><p>The published Windrush guidance confirms what documentation is provided to the applicant dependent on the individual’s circumstance. The guidance can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/807384/windrush-scheme-v3.0-ext.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/807384/windrush-scheme-v3.0-ext.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 277134 question first answered 18/07/2019 16:10:36 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler