Thread by @DavidLammy

This morning the Prime Minister has written to me regarding #Windrush crisis: "Let me be clear: people who have spent a lifetime here are entitled to be here and access the public services to which they have contributed - through their taxes, or in many cases by working in them".

"It is not a question of granting them an amnesty - as that would imply that they were previously outside the law - but of enabling them to secure documentation which attests to their status". A number of questions now follow from this letter I have received from the PM. Thread:

- For what reason have Windrush Children been treating "outside the law" by your Government?
- For what reason have Windrush Children been threatened with deportation, stripped of their rights and denied access to public services they have paid taxes for and indeed worked in?

- Will the Prime Minister now apologise to each individual who has been affected?
- Will the PM now make a public and unreserved apology for the way in which the Windrush Children have been treated?
- How many Windrush Children have been deported or threatened with deportation?

- Can the Prime Minister tell us how many Windrush children have been imprisoned in their own country?
- How many denied access to benefits, healthcare, housing & public services?
- How many Windrush landing cards were destroyed by the Home Office when the PM weas Home Secretary?

- How much money will be set aside to compensate each of those Windrush Children affected?
- Will this compensation be retrospective and will it be applicable to all of those who have spent money on lawyers, lost their jobs, lost their homes, lost their benefits? If not, why not?