Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to comply with the recommendation by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's Child Migration Programmes Report that a government scheme for compensation to former child migrants should be established without delay and operational within 12 months.
Successive Governments have accepted that the policy of child migration was misguided and deeply flawed.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its Report on the Child Migration Programmes on 1 March. We are considering the content of this report and will provide a formal response in due course.