Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her answer of 17 January 2023 to question 119210 on Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration: Publications, with which external stakeholders her Department has had discussions around the function of the recommendation of the Windrush Lessons Learned Review to give the Independent Chief Inspector more powers with regard to publishing reports; and what other work her Department has done on implementation of that recommendation.

A substantial amount of work has been done on considering options for delivering recommendations from the Windrush Lessons Learned report.

The Home Office is taking steps to be more transparent to ensure that the department is as open as possible to all types of scrutiny, both internal and external. The Department will update the Home Affairs Select Committee on the progress of all the Windrush Lessons Learned recommendations in due course.