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MPs call for review of Windrush scandal compensation scheme MPs call for review of 'derisory' Windrush compensation scheme
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MPs have called on the government to review the Windrush compensation scheme, describing sums set to be paid for individual losses as “derisory” and “insultingly low”, and requesting for the caps on certain categories of loss to be scrapped. MPs have called on the government to review the Windrush compensation scheme, describing sums to be paid for individual losses as “derisory” and “insultingly low”, and requesting the caps on certain categories of loss be scrapped.
Tottenham MP, David Lammy, said he was particularly concerned by the proposed payment of £10,000 to people who have been wrongly deported. David Lammy, the MP for Tottenham, said he was particularly concerned by the proposed payment of £10,000 to people who have been wrongly deported.
“£10,000 is less than one secretary of state’s gross salary per month. Is this all that you’ve lost if you been locked up, if you’ve been deported? Is this all it costs someone if they’ve been denied access to their family, friends, for decades from their own country? “£10,000 is less than one secretary of state’s gross salary per month. Is this all that you’ve lost if you been locked up, if you’ve been deported? Is this all it costs someone if they’ve been denied access to their family, friends, for decades from their own country?” he asked.
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“Is this the price that you put on my constituents being deported for no wrongdoing? Is this how this government values the lives of black Britons?” he asked the immigration minister Caroline Nokes, in an urgent question on the compensation scheme in the Commons. “Is this the price that you put on my constituents being deported for no wrongdoing? Is this how this government values the lives of black Britons?” he asked the immigration minister, Caroline Nokes, in an urgent question on the compensation scheme in the House of Commons.
“You promised to do right by the Windrush generation but, quite rightly, many of them think that they have been misled. Let this be the final betrayal of the Windrush generation. Scrap the caps and compensate them properly for the wrongs that have been done to them.”“You promised to do right by the Windrush generation but, quite rightly, many of them think that they have been misled. Let this be the final betrayal of the Windrush generation. Scrap the caps and compensate them properly for the wrongs that have been done to them.”
His concerns were echoed by shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who said: “With this derisory compensation scheme the Windrush generation has been let down again.” His concerns were echoed by the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, who said: “With this derisory compensation scheme, the Windrush generation has been let down again.”
She said the scheme “compares very unfavourably with the criminal injuries compensation scheme”. She also expressed frustration that shadow ministers were not given sight of the detailed rules and tariffs ahead of the scheme’s announcement last week, when the home secretary Sajid Javid told parliament that there was to be no total cap on the scheme. She said the scheme “compares very unfavourably with the criminal injuries compensation scheme”. Abbott also expressed frustration that shadow ministers were not given sight of the detailed rules and tariffs ahead of the scheme’s announcement last week, when the home secretary, Sajid Javid, told parliament there was to be no total cap on the scheme.
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Describing the scheme as “shoddy, unfair and unjust”, she said a flat payment of £500 for people denied access to higher education was “pitiful” when research shows that the value of a higher education over a lifetime amounts to tens of thousands of pounds. Describing the scheme as “shoddy, unfair and unjust”, she said a flat payment of £500 for people denied access to higher education was “pitiful” when research showed the value of higher education over a lifetime amounts to tens of thousands of pounds.
Nokes said it was important to see the individual sums cited in the rules as part of a package of compensation, and did not represent the total compensation that was likely to be paid. The impact on people’s lives overall would also be taken into account, and compensated for. Nokes said it was important to see the individual sums cited in the rules as part of a package of compensation, and it did not represent the total compensation likely to be paid. The impact on people’s lives overall would also be taken into account, and compensated for.
“It is really important that we see the impact on people’s daily life and their mental health reflected and I believe that this scheme enables us to do that,” she said. “We are still ashamed of what happened and desperately trying to put things right by this scheme.” “It is really important that we see the impact on people’s daily life and their mental health reflected, and I believe that this scheme enables us to do that,” she said. “We are still ashamed of what happened and desperately trying to put things right by this scheme.”
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Nokes said a £10,000 payment for deportation was a higher and “a more appropriate figure” than the £1,000 available under existing schemes for wrongful deportation. “The Home Office is determined to help claimants establish the actual level of loss,” she said.Nokes said a £10,000 payment for deportation was a higher and “a more appropriate figure” than the £1,000 available under existing schemes for wrongful deportation. “The Home Office is determined to help claimants establish the actual level of loss,” she said.
Javid announced last week that there was a £200m fund to compensate an estimated 15,000 people affected by Home Office decisions to misclassify long-term British residents as illegal immigrants. But there was no reliable estimate of how many people were affected by the mistakes and the total amount paid out could exceed £570m, government documents reveal, if as many as 30,000 people apply. Javid announced last week that there was a £200m fund to compensate an estimated 15,000 people affected by Home Office decisions to misclassify long-term British residents as illegal immigrants. But there was no reliable estimate of how many people were affected by the mistakes and the total amount paid out could exceed £570m, government documents revealed, if as many as 30,000 people apply.
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