PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Immigration: Windrush Generation (16 April 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who arrived in the UK from Commonwealth Countries before 1971 have been deported, removed, or left the country through the Assisted Voluntary Departure Service.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

The Department has been carrying out a review of all cases of Caribbean Commonwealth nationality, born before 1 January 1973, who have been removed and/or detained by the Home Office since 2002 (when the Casework Information Database (CID) was available across the immigration system) and sought to identify any individuals where there was an indication in the record that the individual could have been in the UK before 1973.

The Home Secretary wrote to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 21st August to provide an update on this work. A copy of this letter has been deposited in the House Library.

This work is ongoing and the Home Secretary has committed to regularly updating the Home Affairs Select Committee on progress

Answered by:
Caroline Nokes (Conservative)
11 September 2018