Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to recommendation 3 of the Windrush Lessons Learned Review, how many formal reconciliation events her Department has hosted.

Grassroots engagement has been key to delivering our messages to the people we know we need to reach.

Since 2018, we have held over 200 engagement and outreach events across the country. These events include 120 one-to-one surgeries to help people apply for documentation to the Windrush Scheme and over 80 public community engagement events to raise awareness of the Windrush Schemes.

In addition to our ongoing programme of engagement and outreach, we are working with an external mediation organisation who are consulting a wide range of stakeholders to design an effective programme of events in response to recommendation 3 of Wendy William’s Windrush Lessons Learned Review. Once this consultation phase ends, we expect to roll out the events later this year.