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HANSARD Windrush SchemeMost applications are being turned round within a matter of weeks, but if the hon. Lady sends me the details of that case, I will take a closer look at it.05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeThe law is very clear on this. It focuses on the crime and on the nationality of the individual, as in whether they are British or not. When someone has committed a serious crime…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeIf the hon. Lady sends me more information about the individual she has in mind, I will of course look into that case.05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeThe hon. Lady chooses to lower the tone of the debate when she could try to help her constituents. The whole House is proud of immigrants who have come to this country, whether…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeThe hon. Lady chose not to listen to the point that my right hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) made about the tone of the debate. If she is trying to suggest that…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeI very much agree with my right hon. Friend about the tone of the debate on immigration—on anyone who has settled in our great country, regardless of where they came from, why…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeI thank the hon. Lady for raising the case, not just today but in October. Had she not done so, Miss Willow Sims might not be getting the support she now gets. I am happy to…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeI very much agree with my hon. Friend.05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeI have asked for more information on the case of Miss Willow Sims, to which I referred earlier. When I heard her on the radio this morning, I was very concerned and determined to…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeI thank my hon. Friend for his comments, which I welcome. He was right to put things the way that he did. We will issue more details on compensation shortly, but we want to…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeI agree with the hon. Lady. I know that she has asked our Department a question, and we are looking into that. I hope she knows that, because I believe that we have communicated…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeYes. When we started work on the compensation scheme, it was right to appoint an independent person, and that is exactly what we did. Martin Forde, QC, travelled across the…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeThe hon. Lady makes an important point. As I said at the start, some people may have lost housing or been affected in other ways in their housing, and they are being helped. We…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeThe hon. Lady has made an important point about joined-up government and the need to ensure that that approach is taken when we respond to the most difficult cases in particular.…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeI commend my hon. Friend for taking up this issue so energetically on behalf of the Chagos islanders, and I should be happy to discuss it with him further.05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeIf the right hon. Gentleman is referring to cases in which someone does not have—to use his own words—precisely the right documentation, of course that should be looked at very…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am acutely aware that almost every decision that the Home Office makes has an impact on someone’s life, and we must ensure that every single…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeLet me first thank the right hon. Lady and her Committee for their scrutiny of this important issue. She knows that we are absolutely committed to providing her and the Committee…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeThe deportations to which the hon. Lady refers took place under the UK Borders Act 2007, which I mentioned earlier and which was debated in the House as a Bill. It gives little if…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeI can confirm that we will be saying something about the compensation scheme very shortly.05 Feb 2019