Windrush Scheme Debate

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Department: Home Office

Windrush Scheme

Andy Slaughter Excerpts
Tuesday 5th February 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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If the hon. Lady sends me more details, I will take a closer look at that case.

Andy Slaughter Portrait Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith) (Lab)
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Before the Windrush scandal became the Windrush scandal, many cases took years to resolve and victims disappeared because they feared deportation. To avoid future injustice, will the Secretary of State guarantee that all Windrush-style cases, including those involving people not from the Caribbean or Commonwealth countries, will be dealt with in a similar fashion?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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The work of the taskforce is open not just to members of the Commonwealth who have come to Britain, but to anyone who came to the UK before 1988.