Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 3
3
Deferred
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Home Office estimates for Windrush compensation claimants are flawed and insufficient.
Conclusion
We are troubled that over four times as many people have had their status or citizenship confirmed under the Windrush Scheme as have applied for compensation, and we are concerned that the Home Office is lowering its estimates of the total number of potential claimants based on the low level of applications rather than the number of those actually eligible for the compensation scheme. We share the NAO’s concern about the Department’s lack of curiosity concerning non-Caribbean cases and its failure to identify individuals proactively who have been granted status but have not applied for compensation.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response argues against transferring the Windrush Compensation Scheme to another organisation, citing potential delays, hardship, and data security concerns, and highlights existing internal and external scrutiny mechanisms.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The current planning assumption is that there are between 4,000 and 6,000 eligible claims, and this has been reached following comprehensive revisions to our scenario analysis. The scenario analysis uses operational, qualitative, and quantitative information from the Windrush Scheme and the Windrush Compensation Scheme as well as further insights from communications activity, outreach, and engagement with people affected. While estimating the number of affected people remains extremely challenging, we think that this revised planning assumption more accurately reflects the number of eligible claims. The revision to our planning assumption does not change the department’s commitment to ensuring all affected members of the Windrush generation can make a claim and receive the maximum compensation to which they are entitled.
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