Immigration: Pausing the Hostile Environment Debate

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Department: Home Office

Immigration: Pausing the Hostile Environment

Lord Walney Excerpts
Thursday 12th July 2018

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Caroline Nokes Portrait Caroline Nokes
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It is absolutely right that, at a time when we were looking very closely at whether anybody of the Windrush cohort had been negatively impacted, we paused flights to the Caribbean. It is important, going forward, that we look at those flights with utmost rigour, and we are determined to do so.

Lord Walney Portrait John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness) (Ind)
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In a Westminster Hall debate on 13 June, the Minister said that no one had successfully judicially reviewed the Government under paragraph 3225 of the immigration rules. Was that accurate, and have any cases been settled out of court?

Caroline Nokes Portrait Caroline Nokes
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If the hon. Gentleman looks in the Library, he will find that I have provided clarification on that matter.