Windrush Generation: Criminal Records

(asked on 18th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush generation people were refused UK citizenship as a result of a (a) prison sentence of (i) over four years, (ii) between two and four years, (iii) between 12 months and two years, (iv) 12 months or less, (b) community order, (c) fine ,(d) caution, (e) reprimand and (f) formal warning.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 25th April 2019

We are unable to provide the information requested as this would involve undertaking a manual trawl of individual cases which would incur dispropor-tionate cost.

The number of overall refusals and those refused on criminality grounds for all citizenship casework is published as part of the Migration Transparency data, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship - cz_09 for all refusals of citizenship by main reason.

Additionally, the Home Secretary provides regular updates to the Home Af-fairs Select Committee on the work of the Department in connection with Windrush. These updates can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush

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