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To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Windrush Cross-Government Working Group on implementing the Migrants' Commissioner role; and what progress they have made on this issue.

Asked by
Bishop of Durham (Bishops (affiliation))
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 July 2021
Reference
HL2009
House
House of Lords

Statement on the progress on the Windrush lessons learned review.

Lead member
Priti Patel
Department
Home Office
Type
Ministerial statements
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 cc2019-2037
House
House of Commons

What happened to the Windrush generation at the hands of the British Home Office was deeply shameful. I welcome the Home Secretary’s commitment to fundamental reform of the culture and the processes in the Home Office, and her commitment to change the way the Home Office works. I also welcome...

Member
Yvette Cooper (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2027
House
House of Commons

The right hon. Lady will be aware, from when we spoke at the Select Committee last week, of my comments on cases and the changes—new case- workers—that will come into place If she would like to provide me with the two new cases, I will take a look at them...

Member
Priti Patel (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2028
House
House of Commons

I welcome the very personal ownership the Home Secretary has taken of identifying and implementing solutions to the problems that Windrush revealed, particularly around people not cases, as she said. Windrush uncovered just how complicated, opaque and costly the whole immigration system is, with numerous and complex different qualifying criteria...

Member
Tim Loughton (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2028
House
House of Commons

I thank my hon. Friend for his comment and his point. He will know, through the work we are undertaking in the Home Office itself with reforms to the immigration system, including the points-based system, that we are looking at the Law Commission’s recommendations on simplifying the immigration system. It...

Member
Priti Patel (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2028
House
House of Commons

I welcome the Home Secretary’s statement, but if we are learning lessons why will she not act now on looked-after children and care leavers eligible under the EU settlement scheme to ensure that they are all urgently processed? Otherwise, they are destined to end up in exactly the same position...

Member
Lord McCabe (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2028
House
House of Commons

With respect, I disagree with the hon. Gentleman’s last comment. When it comes to carers and children in particular—who he rightly highlights, if I may say so—there is a great deal of effort taking place, not just in the Department but with local authorities, specifically on the groups he speaks...

Member
Priti Patel (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2028
House
House of Commons

Can my right hon. Friend confirm that the £1.5 million already offered by way of legal compensation will be the start of a proper and thorough process of compensation? Does she agree that justice delayed is actually justice denied?

Member
Sarah Dines (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2028
House
House of Commons

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. As I have highlighted, both today and in previous statements, it is absolutely my intention, my desire and my focus, and the focus of the Home Office, to ensure that we do more around compensation. These cases, I am sorry to say, are complicated...

Member
Priti Patel (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2028
House
House of Commons

With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on the progress on the Windrush lessons learned review. As I have said in this House on a number of occasions, the Windrush scandal is an ugly stain on the face of our country and on the Home Office. Wendy...

Member
Priti Patel (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 cc2020-3
House
House of Commons

I thank the Home Secretary for her statement and for advance sight of it. I pay tribute to Wendy Williams and her team for their work and I welcome the further details set out today on changes at the Home Office, but the Windrush scandal must lead to real and...

Member
Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 cc2022-4
House
House of Commons

I would like not only to restate my commitment to delivering the compensation for those who became victims of the Windrush scandal itself, but to say that it is absolutely right, and it is my focus, my determination and my resolve, to ensure that the individuals whose lives were blighted...

Member
Priti Patel (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 cc2024-5
House
House of Commons

The cross-Government working group has a key role to consider the changes needed to support the Windrush generation, as well as a wider scope to address the challenges faced by black and ethnic minority people across the country and society, in education, work and health. Can my right hon. Friend...

Member
Jerome Mayhew (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2025
House
House of Commons

My hon. Friend asks an important question. Not just through my time at the Home Office, but even now, every time I look at Windrush cases and read the details and backgrounds of the hardship and suffering, I fundamentally believe that there is much more we need to do as...

Member
Priti Patel (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2025
House
House of Commons

I welcome this full statement, which contains some substantial commitments and aims, and I thank the Home Secretary

for advance sight of it. First, when Wendy Williams gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights earlier this month, she said that the Windrush scandal had highlighted

“fundamental cultural, political and...

Member
Joanna Cherry (Scottish National Party)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 cc2025-6
House
House of Commons

The hon. and learned Lady raises some very important points, quite frankly, about how the Home Office not just undertakes reviews but picks up on recommendations and enacts recommendations around reviews themselves.

It is fair to say that Wendy Williams’s “Windrush Lessons Learned Review” is a review like no other. Thankfully,...

Member
Priti Patel (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 cc2026-7
House
House of Commons

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Having compensation available that people are aware of is very important, but trust in the system also needs to be rebuilt so that people feel confident in claiming. What is she doing to ensure that people are not just aware of the funds...

Member
Ben Spencer (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2027
House
House of Commons

My hon. Friend raises a very important point. He will have heard my comment in my statement about rebuilding trust. For people to come forward, they have to have not just confidence but trust in the organisation that they are engaging with. That is fundamental to the work that the...

Member
Priti Patel (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2027
House
House of Commons

Recommendation 6 of Wendy Williams’s review calls for an education programme to be introduced for all new and existing Home Office staff to make sure that all staff

“learn about the history of the UK and its relationship with the rest of the world, including Britain’s colonial history, the history of...

Member
Helen Hayes (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
21 July 2020
Reference
678 c2029
House
House of Commons