Windrush Compensation Scheme Debate

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Department: Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

Meg Hillier 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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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.

Meg Hillier Portrait Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Lab/Co-op)
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As well as the publicity drive that the Home Secretary has talked about, will his officials be going through, with their fingertips, every case of other Commonwealth citizens who are caught up in this?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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We want to make sure that no one is left out. We have, for reasons I have previously explained in the House, focused on those of Caribbean origin, but that process of trying to find those who may have been wronged continues.