Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the total number of persons who are entitled to claim compensation under the Windrush Compensation Scheme as (a) primary claimants, (b) close family members and (c) estate claimants.

The Home Office’s planning assumptions for the Windrush Compensation Scheme are based on 4000-6000 eligible claims. These assumptions are not broken down into the sub-categories requested.

However, as at the end of February 2022, 3,618 claims had been received, broken down as follows:

Primary claim 2,756

Close Family Member claim 577

Deceased Estate claim 285

We believe the current planning assumptions more accurately reflect the number of eligible claims we are likely to receive, a range has been adopted to reflect the inherent uncertainty. The Home Office monitors the latest data and insights to inform this analysis.

The Home Office is committed to ensuring all affected members of the Windrush generation make a claim and receive the maximum compensation to which they are entitled.

To ensure no one is prevented from making a claim if they are eligible, simply because a deadline has passed, or because we have received more claims than we had planned for, we have removed the formal end date of the scheme.

There is no cap on the amount of compensation we will pay out or the number of claims we will accept.