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<p>The department does not hold this information.</p><p><br>On 16 April, the Home
Office established a Taskforce to ensure that mem-bers of the Windrush generation
were able to evidence their right to be in the UK. Subsequently, on 24 May the Home
Secretary laid a Written Ministerial Statement setting out the Windrush Scheme, which
ensures that members of this generation, their children born in the UK and those who
arrived in the UK as minors will be able to apply to the Taskforce for citizenship,
or various other immigration products, free of charge.</p><p>The scheme came into
force on 30 May.The Department has provided an update on its response to the problems
affecting members of the Windrush generation to the Home Affairs Select Committee
on a monthly basis.</p>
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