Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment she has made of the potential long-term trauma and detrimental effects on mental health caused to people affected by the Windrush scandal; and what steps the Government is taking to provide counselling, talking therapies and ongoing support to people affected and to their families.

Pursuant to the reply to Question 137167 given to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree on 02 May, the Government is clear that where the Windrush generation have suffered loss, they will be compensated.

The first stage was to launch a Call for Evidence, that closed on 8 June. The Government will publish a further public consultation on the design and shape of the scheme, as soon as the time has been taken to analyse the responses to the Call for Evidence and use the information gathered to inform design and implementation considerations.

In the meanwhile we will continue to work with and support affected individuals through the operation of the Windrush Taskforce.