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Written Question
Windrush Compensation Scheme
Wednesday 7th February 2024

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have received an award from the Windrush Compensation Scheme in each quarter since that Scheme was launched.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

An individual could have more than one claim under the Windrush Compensation Scheme Rules, for example as a primary claimant, close family member, or as a representative of an estate. In addition, a claim may receive a preliminary, interim and/or full and final payment.

Data on the total number of people who have received a compensation payment is not published. Transparency Data shows how many claims have received a payment under the scheme.

The latest published data, covering the period up to November 2023, is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/windrush-compensation-scheme-data-november-2023. WCS_03 refers; Value of Windrush Compensation Scheme payments made.


Written Question
Short-term Holding Facilities: Children
Monday 18th September 2023

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will accept donations of (a) toys for children at her Department 's short-term holding facilities and (b) funds for the express purpose of procuring toys for children staying at such facilities.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Under contractual arrangements Home Office has Mitie Care & Custod provides, toys and games are for children in Short-Term Holding Facilities (STHF).

All local authorities are under a mandatory duty to comply with the National Transfer Scheme, ensuring all local authorities play a part in caring for unaccompanied children and that responsibility is fairly distributed across the UK.

Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Manston Update

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Manston Update

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

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Written Question
Detention Centres: Manston
Wednesday 9th November 2022

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children are held in the Manston asylum processing centre as of 1 November 2022.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Home Office does not hold the data in the format requested.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Nov 2022
Asylum Seekers Accommodation and Safeguarding

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 31 Oct 2022
Western Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing Centres

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Written Question
UK Border Force: Dover Port and Manston Airport
Monday 25th July 2022

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current minimum staffing levels are on contracts between the Border Force and private security contractors in (a) the Port of Dover and (b) Manston Airport.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The Home Office does not routinely publish information relating to the number of staff working in specific locations as this would publicise operational practises which, in the wrong hands, could be used to attempt to evade controls at the border and compromise border security.

However, resource and staffing requirements at every port are continually reviewed by Border Force and we work closely with all port operators to try and anticipate demand. Resources are deployed flexibly as and when they are required.


Written Question
Undocumented Migrants: Dover Port and Manston Airport
Monday 25th July 2022

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list the private security companies (a) contracted or (b) sub-contracted to process undocumented migrants in (i) the Port of Dover and (ii) Manston Airport.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The Home Office has a number of arrangements in place to provide security, and custodial staff at the Port of Dover, and at its site in Manston.

These arrangements include the pre-existing Escorting and Related Services Contract with Mite Care and Custody, a contract with Management & Training Corporation (UK) Ltd, and a contract with Bloom Procurement Services who contracts with Definitive PSA Ltd (trading as Interforce) to deliver services for the Department.

Providing number of staff based at Dover and Manston, would reveal information on the security of our borders. It is not possible to provide the level of detail requested on volumes and patterns without impacting national security