Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to re-evaluate their immigration policies to ensure that they do not deliver a "hostile environment".

The public expects us to enforce immigration laws approved by Parliament as a matter of fairness to those who abide by the rules.

Successive Governments have brought forward measures to tackle illegal migration and prevent the misuse of public services and benefits.

It is right, however, that we understand the impact of those measures; that they are meeting our aim to deter immigration offending, and, vitally, that safeguards are effective in ensuring they are not capturing those who are entitled to access work, benefits and services in the UK. We recognise the need to put in place evaluation to do this, and will consider options in due course. In light of Windrush, we are also reviewing our safeguards.

The Home Office has also announced a Windrush lessons learned review. The review will seek to understand how the Windrush generation became entangled in measures designed for illegal immigrants and why this was not spotted sooner.