Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many versions of the Windrush Lessons Learned review his Department has received; and on which date those versions were received.

The Independent Adviser, Wendy Williams, lead the Windrush Lessons Learned Review. In line with the published Terms of Reference for the review, information was provided to a small number of officials in the department to support due process with regard to Maxwellisation, defamation and GDPR, and any other HR and legal considerations; and to enable the department to fact check the report.

This is common practice for this type of review. The processes associated with Maxwellisation and fact-checking were led by the Independent Adviser and were a matter for her. The Independent Adviser’s conclusions remain a matter for the Independent Adviser.

On 19 March 2020 we published the Windrush Lessons Learned immediately after we received the final version. We remain determined to right the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation, and we have said we accept the findings of this important review, and that we agree with the recommendations. The Home Secretary will be setting out to Parliament before summer recess how this will be taken forward. https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-07-21/debates/CF88BF2D-55E5-4672-8103-E28A1136C3F1/WindrushLessonsLearnedReview