Windrush Debate

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Department: Home Office

Windrush

Maria Eagle Excerpts
Tuesday 4th September 2018

(6 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Caroline Nokes Portrait Caroline Nokes
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The hon. Gentleman is indeed leading a debate later this afternoon about English language testing. We are very conscious that there was significant fraud. Many thousands of cases were found to have been fraudulent and many colleges not only closed as a result but were bogus colleges that we had already identified problems with. Where there is systemic fraud and abuse in the immigration system, as we saw with some language testing, it is important that the Government take action, and he will be aware that successive court cases have upheld our position.

Maria Eagle Portrait Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood) (Lab)
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The Minister has said several times that she wishes to ensure that the wrongs done to the Windrush generation are righted. We now know that three people who were wrongly deported have since died. What will her Department do to right the wrongs done to those three families?

Caroline Nokes Portrait Caroline Nokes
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As the hon. Lady will have heard me say, the Home Secretary has already reached out to individuals impacted and the families of those who have passed away to offer his personal apology. They will of course be entitled to apply to the compensation scheme when that is open.