Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that members of the Windrush generation receive the benefits to which they are entitled in the event that they are unable to provide documents to prove their citizenship.

DWP officials are working with the Home Office and other Government bodies to help individuals affected and ensure that they are able to access the benefits and services to which they are entitled. DWP has arranged a fast-track service into the Home Office Taskforce to confirm swiftly the status of people from the Windrush generation who are unable to provide documentation in support of their benefit claim.