Scheduled Mass Deportation: Jamaica
Debate between Baroness Fookes and Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Tuesday 1st December 2020
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The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Fookes) (Con)
Do we have the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf? If not, I call the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey of Didcot.
Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con) [V]
My Lords, I wonder whether my noble friend the Minister could confirm a number of things regarding this case: first, that these deportations are taking place under legislation passed by the last Labour Government; secondly, that the deportation of foreign criminals to Jamaica makes up a very small percentage of the deportations undertaken every year; and, thirdly, that it is wholly wrong to conflate the scandal of Windrush with this case. The Government are dealing with the fallout from the Windrush scandal but this case has nothing to do with it.