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Found: Update HC 173 13th Initial lessons from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemicHC 175 14th Windrush

Found: Update HC 173 13th Initial lessons from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemicHC 175 14th Windrush

Found: Update HC 173 13th Initial lessons from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemicHC 175 14th Windrush

Found: Update HC 173 13th Initial lessons from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemicHC 175 14th Windrush

Found: Update HC 173 13th Initial lessons from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemicHC 175 14th Windrush

Found: Update HC 173 13th Initial lessons from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemicHC 175 14th Windrush

Found: Update HC 173 13th Initial lessons from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemicHC 175 14th Windrush

Found: Update HC 173 13th Initial lessons from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemicHC 175 14th Windrush

Found: Following the establishment of the Windrush Scheme, the Home Office launched the Windrush Compensation

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they anticipate having paid compensation in full to claimants of the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Windrush Compensation Scheme is determined to ensure everyone who was affected receives every penny of the compensation to which they are entitled at the earliest point possible. The Scheme is making significant progress towards achieving this aim and has paid over £80 million in compensation as of January 2024. However, each person’s claim is deeply personal and deserves to be processed with the utmost care and sensitivity. This holistic approach necessarily takes time but is ultimately beneficial to individuals.

The Scheme does not therefore, impose time limit targets for concluding claims.

The Scheme has reduced the time to allocate a claim for a substantive casework consideration, from 18 months to under 4 months. The 4-month period includes all essential eligibility checks, together with a Preliminary Assessment to make an initial payment of £10,000 wherever possible. The Scheme has no end date so that people are not prevented from claiming compensation and there is no cap on the amount of compensation that will be paid overall.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of Windrush Compensation Scheme claims they have paid in full so far.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Information on the total number of Windrush Compensation Scheme claims that have received a compensation payment is published as part of the Transparency Data release. The latest published data, covering the period up to the end of January 2024, is available here: Windrush Compensation Scheme data: January 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

As of January 2024, over £80 million has been paid in compensation across 2,233 claims.

An individual could have more than one claim under the Windrush Compensation Scheme rules, for example as a primary claimant, close family member, or as a representative of an estate. In addition, a claim may receive a preliminary, interim and/or full and final payment.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department are taking to improve the speed of delivery of full compensation under the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

The Windrush Compensation Scheme is determined to ensure everyone who was affected receives every penny of the compensation to which they are entitled at the earliest point possible. The scheme is making significant progress towards achieving this aim. As of the end of January 2024, the scheme had paid over £80 million in compensation and over 82% of claims received had been given a final decision.

The time to allocate a claim for a substantive casework consideration has been reduced significantly, from 18 months to under 4 months. The 4-month period includes all essential eligibility checks, together with a Preliminary Assessment to make an initial payment of £10,000 wherever possible.

However, each person’s claim is deeply personal and deserves to be processed with the utmost care and sensitivity so that the maximum payment can be made to them.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in each quarter since the Windrush Compensation scheme was launched, how many people who received an award applied (a) fewer than three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six to 12 months and (d) more than a year before the award.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

The Windrush Compensation Scheme’s priority is to ensure people receive the maximum compensation as quickly as possible.

The time taken to allocate a claim for a substantive casework consideration has been reduced from 18 months to under 4 months. The 4-month period includes all essential eligibility checks, together with a Preliminary Assessment to make an initial payment of £10,000 wherever possible.

Information on the time taken from a claim being received to a compensation payment is not published.

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Found: Windrush Compensation Scheme data: January 2024

Found: Windrush Compensation Scheme data: January 2024

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