Title: Windrush scandal - Wikipedia
Headings: Windrush scandal
Windrush scandal
Contents
Background
Hostile environment policy
Initial warnings
Home Affairs Select Committee report
Press reports
Parliament
Targets
Change of Home Secretary
Parliamentary committees
Human Rights committee report
Home Affairs Select Committee report
Home Office replies
National Audit Office report
Resumption of deportations
Redress for victims
Hardship scheme
Landing cards
Broader immigration
Leak inquiry
Caribbean reactions
Windrush Lessons Learned Review
Sitting in Limbo
See also
References
External links

Content: In 2012, Home Secretary Theresa May stated: " The aim is to create, here in Britain, a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants". The policy was widely seen as being part of a strategy of reducing UK immigration figures to the levels promised in the 2010 Conservative Party Election Manifesto. Measures introduced by the policy include a legal requirement for landlords, employers, the NHS, charities, community interest companies and banks to carry out ID checks and to refuse services if the individual is unable to prove legal residence in the UK. Landlords, employers and others are liable to fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply with these measures. The policy led to a more complicated application process to get 'leave to remain' and encouraged voluntary deportation. The policy coincided with sharp increases in Home Office fees for processing "leave to remain", naturalisation and registration of citizenship applications. The BBC reported that the Home Office had made a profit of more than £800m from nationality services between 2011 and 2017. The term 'hostile environment' had first been used under the Brown Government. On 25 April 2018, in answer to questions in Parliament during the Windrush scandal, then Prime Minister Theresa May said the hostile-environment policy would remain government policy.