division_name: Windrush
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a340.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, that she will be graciously pleased to give directions that the following papers be provided to the Home Affairs Committee: all papers, correspondence and advice including emails and text messages, from <phrase class="date" code="2018-05-11">11 May</phrase> 2010 up to and including <phrase class="date" code="2018-05-01">1 May</phrase> 2018, to and between Ministers, senior officials and Special Advisers relating to policy decisions including on the Immigration Acts 2014 and 2016 with regard the Windrush generation cases, including deportations, detentions and refusal of re-entry, the setting of deportation and removal targets and their effect on the Windrush generation, and action taken within Government following the concerns raised by Caribbean Governments with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office including the original decision by the Prime Minister not to meet Caribbean Heads of Government and officials, and all copies of minutes and papers relating to the Cabinet&#8217;s Immigration Implementation Taskforce.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a342.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I will be refocusing IE&#8217;s work to concentrate on enforced removals. In particular I will be reallocating &#163;10m (including from low-level crime and intelligence) with the aim of increasing&#8230;enforced removals by&#8230;10%...over the next few years&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a348.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a363.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;urgent action is needed to address errors in the enforcement process.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a363.3/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;He has&#8230;been unable to demonstrate that he has been continuously resident in the UK for the years 1989 to 1990, 1994 to 1995 and 1997 to 1998.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a366.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Nothing that the government has announced today in parliament will address the root causes of the Windrush scandal&#8212;namely the &#8216;hostile environment&#8217; policy. Hostility is still very much in play, the government still plans to roll Right to Rent out further to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a376.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled&#8230;nor will we proceed with force against him&#8230;except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a380.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;that&#8217;s not how we operate&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a394.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;up to and including <phrase class="date" code="2018-05-01">1 May</phrase> 2018&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a400.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I was a little&#8230;boy from the Caribbean and instinctively I called him &#8216;Sir&#8217;. &#8216;No, Sir&#8217;, he hastily corrected, &#8216;It is I who call you &#8220;Sir&#8221;&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a401.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Being British, you feel like you are coming home, but when we came here it was like we dropped out of the sky. Nobody knew anything about us.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a402.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Are British citizens to carry means of identification everywhere to prove that they are not visitors? For if the sheep are to be separated from the goats both must be classified. What began as an attempt to keep the Health Service for ourselves would end by being a nuisance to everybody.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a411.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It would appear, in this case, that Theo&#8217;s siblings may have been erroneously issued with British citizen passports. If their full details, including their dates of birth, can be provided then the Home Office will investigate the matter further. If it transpires that the passports were issued in error, then it will ultimately be a decision for Her Majesty&#8217;s Passport Office as to whether or not the passports can be retained, or should be revoked.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a414.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;consideration has been given to the criminal court judgement in which he was a credible witness, however this in itself does not present as a very compelling circumstance to prevent deportation.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a420.5/5" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a420.5/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 221, Noes 316.</p>