Windrush Compensation Scheme Debate

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Department: Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

Helen Hayes Excerpts
Wednesday 3rd April 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Helen Hayes Portrait Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood) (Lab)
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Will the Home Office fund independent legal advice for those Windrush citizens who may not be able to navigate the Home Office website system or who may feel entirely unable directly to approach a Department that has so comprehensively breached their trust?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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As I mentioned earlier, we have tried to make it as simple as we can to navigate, with guidance and a freephone number. If anyone finds themselves in that circumstance, I suggest that the first thing they do is call the freephone number.