Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Windrush compensation scheme, (a) when she plans to make the first compensation payments and (b) how much money her Department has allocated to the scheme.

The compensation scheme opened in April 2019 and a number of claimants have received payments through the scheme.

We will publish information on the total number of claims paid and the overall amount paid out by the scheme shortly as noted in our report to the Home Affairs Select Committee https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/update-to-the-hasc-on-windrush-22-october-2019.

In relation to the amount of money allocated to the scheme, information relating to estimated costs including compensation payments are referred to in the Home Office’s Impact Assessment IA No: HO 0329 dated 9/1/19.