Provide justice for Windrush victims, MP urgespublished at 12:46 British Summer Time 20 July 2022
Labour MP Kate Osamor says the Windrush compensation scheme (for those people, mainly from the Caribbean, who came to the UK legally but did not have the documents to prove their right to remain and suffered as a result) launched in 2019, since when Boris Johnson has come and gone as PM.
She says just one in 4 applicants have received compensation, and at least 28 have died.
Isn't it about time the government made the scheme independent of the Home Office and finally provided justice to the victims before it is too late, Osamor asks.
Johnson renews his apologies to the Windrush generation for what they have suffered.
"We have greatly increased the compensation available," he says, adding that more than £51m has been paid out and the government is working with voluntary groups to ensure everyone gets what they're entitled to.
Labour has never apologised for its part in the Windrush scandal, the PM says.