Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many members of the Windrush generation have been deported.

The Home Office has been checking around 8,000 records of removals and deportations dating back to 2002 to determine whether there have been any wrongful removals or deportations of Caribbean nationals who arrived before 1973.

Of these 63 cases have been identified where the individual could have entered the UK before 1973. This is split between 32 Foreign National Offender deportations and 31 administrative removals.

We are now reviewing each of these cases carefully in more depth - including bringing paper files out of storage if necessary - to determine whether anyone who was protected under the 1971 Act was removed or deported unlawfully. This work will be independently assured.

This does not mean that 63 people have been wrongfully removed or deported. It is the number of cases which merit further investigation.