Immigration: Windrush Generation

(asked on 23rd April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people of the Windrush generation have been denied state pension support in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 26th April 2018

DWP officials are working with the Home Office and other Government bodies to help individuals to confirm quickly their residency in the UK and ensure that they receive the support to which they are entitled. The department does not collect statistical information by citizenship status and so does not hold the specific information requested.

DWP has set up a dedicated team to confirm residence in the UK for those people who have engaged with the Home Office in order to apply for leave and have never received the necessary documentation to confirm they qualify. DWP has also arranged a fast-track service into the Home Office Task Force to swiftly confirm the status of Windrush cases who are unable to provide documentation in support of their benefit claim.

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