Mentions:
1: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) and effectiveness of the Windrush Compensation Scheme. - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) College legal clinic, is that, of comparable compensation schemes, the Windrush compensation scheme has - Speech Link
3: Lord Adebowale (XB - Life peer) A second apology is due not only to the victims of the Windrush scandal but to the Windrush generation - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) a Windrush compensation scheme. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) documentation scheme and the Windrush compensation scheme.Since February 2023, the Windrush compensation - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) generation and their descendants. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Since February 2023, the Windrush compensation scheme engagement team has attended more than 19 events - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, given the suffering of the victims of the Windrush generation but also their incredible contribution - Speech Link
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the time taken to process claims to the Windrush Compensation Scheme from people in Wales.
Answered by David T C Davies - Secretary of State for Wales
I have regular discussions with Home Office ministers on a range of issues and I recognise the contribution of the Windrush Generation to Wales. I was pleased to meet the Windrush Cymru Elders at the Mission Seafarers in Newport on 31 October 2023.
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 November 2023, the scheme had paid over £75 million in compensation and over 78% 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.
Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) This year marks the fifth anniversary since the launch of the Windrush compensation scheme, yet nearly - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) generation and families get the compensation and justice that they are owed. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) compensation scheme. - Speech Link
2: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) compensation scheme. - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) compensation scheme. - Speech Link
4: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) compensation scheme. - Speech Link
5: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) compensation scheme. - Speech Link
6: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) compensation scheme. - Speech Link
7: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick), confirmed that by April last year, 41 of the 6,122 Windrush compensation - Speech Link
8: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) The Windrush generation and their families helped to build our NHS, but today we see big inequalities - Speech Link
Correspondence Jan. 29 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Public Accounts, to Gareth Davies, Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit Office, re Government compensation
Mentions:
1: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) generation is one of the most shameful episodes in our post-war history. - Speech Link
2: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) They are being massively left behind, and the compensation scheme has not moved forward at all. - Speech Link
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of compensation payments made under the Windrush Compensation Scheme to people experiencing psychological trauma resulting from discrimination because they could not prove their right to stay in the UK.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Windrush Compensation Scheme is designed to compensate members of the Windrush generation and their families for the losses and impacts they have suffered because they were unable to demonstrate their lawful immigration status.
The scheme acts as a single gateway for compensation in fourteen categories covering a broad range of impacts, including denial of access to services and a deterioration in mental or physical health. There is no cap on the amount of compensation we will pay. This is in recognition of the wide-reaching ways people have been affected.
Since its launch, the Home Office has continued to listen and respond to feedback from affected individuals and stakeholders about the scheme, expanding and amending it as our understanding of the way people have been affected has improved. In August 2022 we expanded the homelessness category and introduced a completely new ‘Living Costs’ category for close family members.
Compensation payments are made as quickly as possible. Decision makers draw upon all the evidence that has been provided and gathered, to make a holistic assessment of the effect on an individual’s life. Each person’s claim is deeply personal and requires careful and detailed consideration to understand their individual circumstances and experiences. All claims are processed with the utmost care and sensitivity.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of compensation payments made under the Windrush Compensation Scheme for people who experienced discrimination from public services because they could not prove their right to stay in the UK.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Windrush Compensation Scheme is designed to compensate members of the Windrush generation and their families for the losses and impacts they have suffered because they were unable to demonstrate their lawful immigration status.
The scheme acts as a single gateway for compensation in fourteen categories covering a broad range of impacts, including denial of access to services and a deterioration in mental or physical health. There is no cap on the amount of compensation we will pay. This is in recognition of the wide-reaching ways people have been affected.
Since its launch, the Home Office has continued to listen and respond to feedback from affected individuals and stakeholders about the scheme, expanding and amending it as our understanding of the way people have been affected has improved. In August 2022 we expanded the homelessness category and introduced a completely new ‘Living Costs’ category for close family members.
Compensation payments are made as quickly as possible. Decision makers draw upon all the evidence that has been provided and gathered, to make a holistic assessment of the effect on an individual’s life. Each person’s claim is deeply personal and requires careful and detailed consideration to understand their individual circumstances and experiences. All claims are processed with the utmost care and sensitivity.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of compensation payments made under the Windrush scheme to former armed forces personnel.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Windrush Compensation Scheme is designed to compensate members of the Windrush generation and their families for the losses and impacts they have suffered because they were unable to demonstrate their lawful immigration status.
The scheme acts as a single gateway for compensation in fourteen categories covering a broad range of impacts, including denial of access to services and a deterioration in mental or physical health. There is no cap on the amount of compensation we will pay. This is in recognition of the wide-reaching ways people have been affected.
Since its launch, the Home Office has continued to listen and respond to feedback from affected individuals and stakeholders about the scheme, expanding and amending it as our understanding of the way people have been affected has improved. In August 2022 we expanded the homelessness category and introduced a completely new ‘Living Costs’ category for close family members.
Compensation payments are made as quickly as possible. Decision makers draw upon all the evidence that has been provided and gathered, to make a holistic assessment of the effect on an individual’s life. Each person’s claim is deeply personal and requires careful and detailed consideration to understand their individual circumstances and experiences. All claims are processed with the utmost care and sensitivity.