Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff have been recruited to operate the Windrush helpline; and whether those staff have been diverted from working on visas and immigration casework.

The Taskforce consists of approximately 150 staff, who have been seconded from a number of areas of UKVI, including Premium Service Centre, Citizenship, Work and Study commands. We are carefully monitoring the impact that the secondments are having on the business as usual areas that the staff came from and are considering what the shape of a long-term unit for this work may take.