Windrush Compensation Scheme Debate

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Department: Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

Alison Thewliss Excerpts
Wednesday 3rd April 2019

(5 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I would be happy to take a look.

Alison Thewliss Portrait Alison Thewliss (Glasgow Central) (SNP)
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Will the Home Secretary extend the compensation scheme to highly skilled migrants wronged by the Home Office? Can he explain why the cases I have raised in the press have been resolved and those I have not raised in the press have not been resolved?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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The eligibility for the scheme is very wide. I set it out earlier in my statement, and it will almost certainly include many highly skilled migrants.