Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Act 2020

Summary

This Act allows the government to spend money on a compensation scheme for Windrush generation members – people who arrived in the UK legally but were wrongly treated as illegal immigrants, losing jobs and homes. It aims to pay them money to repair the harm caused by government mistakes.

A vote to support means

—Supporting this Act means approving money to be spent on compensating people from the Windrush generation – Caribbean migrants and their children who faced wrongful deportation and discrimination. It helps give financial justice to people whose lives were damaged by immigration errors.

A vote to oppose means

—Some people might worry about how much this costs taxpayers, question whether the compensation amounts are fair, or believe the government should have prevented the Windrush scandal in the first place rather than paying compensation afterwards.

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Bill Passage

Commons

1st reading8 Jan 2020
2nd reading10 Feb 2020
Committee stage24 Mar 2020
3rd reading24 Mar 2020

Lords

1st reading25 Mar 2020
2nd reading21 Apr 2020
3rd reading21 Apr 2020

Royal Assent8 Jun 2020

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