Windrush: Hundreds granted citizenship

More than 500 people have been granted British citizenship under a government scheme launched in the wake of the Windrush scandal.

Home Sec re tarySaj id Javid also disclosed that more than 2,000 individuals have now been issued with documentation confirming their right to be in the UK.

But LabourMP Yvette Cooper said it was“very disappointing” that the Commons Home Affairs Committee, which she chairs, has still not been provided with information about the number of people wrongly detained, and that the Home Office has yet to make contact with the majority of those who may have been incorrectly removed or deported.

Ministers faced a furious backlash over the treatment of the Wind rush generation, named after a ship that brought migrants to Britain from the Caribbean in 1948.

Common we al thci tizens who arrived before 1973 were automatically granted in definite leave to remain under the 1971 Immigration Act.

While many of those who arrived have taken British citizenship or have official documents confirming their status, others have struggled to produce relevant paperwork demonstrating they are lawfully resident.