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Cabinet Minister Failures: Identify & Explain Two Occasions when a…
Cabinet Minister Failures: Identify & Explain Two Occasions when a Cabinet Minister has Failed to Lead their Department Effectively
Amber Rudd: Windrush
Timeline
16 April 2018: Home Secretary, Amber Rudd issued a formal apology for Home Office mistreatment of Commonwealth citizens who had settled in the UK decades ago and announced that a Home Office taskforce would be set up to help them establish their longstanding rights to live in the UK.
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23 April 2018: Amber Rudd announced she would waive Home Office fees and citizenship tests (knowledge of language and life in the UK) for members of the Windrush generation and their children to become British citizens; and ensure people who had been wrongly expelled or excluded from the UK were able to return without having to pay fees. She also announced there would be compensation and lessons would be learned.
29 April 2018: Amber Rudd wrote to the Prime Minister to resign as Home Secretary. She was replaced by the current Home Secretary, Rt Hon Sajid Javid, who promised to make good on the commitments his predecessor had made.
2 May 2018: Sajid Javid announced a ‘Windrush lessons learned review’ would be conducted by the Home Office. (An independent adviser was appointed on 22 June 2018; terms of reference for the review published on 19 July 2018; and a call for evidence issued on 20 August 2018.)
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24 May 2018: Sajid Javid announced the Windrush Scheme (which opened on 30 May) under which people who had settled in the UK prior to 31 December 1988 could apply for free for documentation confirming British citizenship or their right to live permanently in the UK. He also laid regulations before Parliament to waive the fee (and knowledge of language and life in the UK tests) for certain Commonwealth citizens to naturalise as British citizens
What
The scandal, which broke in April 2018, saw the UK government apologise for deportation threats made to Commonwealth citizens' children.
Despite living and working in the UK for decades, many were told they were there illegally because of a lack of official paperwork.
Who
People arriving in the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been labelled the Windrush generation.
It refers to the ship MV Empire Windrush, which docked in Tilbury on 22 June 1948, bringing workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands, to help fill post-war UK labour shortages.
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Government
In April 2018, then-prime minister Theresa May apologised for their treatment. An inquiry was announced and a compensation scheme established.
The inquiry, which released its report in March 2020, said that the scandal was "foreseeable and avoidable". It criticised "a culture of disbelief and carelessness" in the Home Office.
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The inquiry report author, Wendy Williams, warned there was a "grave risk" of similar problems happening again if the government failed to act.
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