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My honourable friend has raised a very important issue which I know has caused a great deal of concern and anxiety, so I would like to update the House. People in the Windrush generation who came here from Commonwealth countries have built a life here, they've made a massive contribution to the country. These people are British, they are part of us, and I want to be absolutely clear that we have no intention of asking anyone to leave who has the right to remain here. For those who have mistakenly received letters challenging them, I apologise to them and I want to say sorry to anyone who has been caused confusion or anxiety felt as a result of this. But I want to be clear with the House how this has arisen. Those Commonwealth citizens... The Prime Minister is responding to the question. There will be a very full opportunity for questioning of the Prime Minister on this occasion, as there is on every occasion, but the questions must be heard and the answers must be heard.

The Prime Minister. Let me update the House on how this has arisen. Those Commonwealth citizens who arrived before 1973 and were settled here have a right conferred by the 1971 Immigration Act to live in the UK. They were not required to take any action with the Home Office to document their status. The overwhelming majority already have the immigration documents they need, but there are some who through no fault of their own do not, and those are the people we're working hard to help now. My right hon. Friend, the Prime Secretary, has made clear a new dedicated team. A new dedicated team is being set up to help these people evidence their right to be here and access services, and it will aim to resolve cases within two weeks once the evidence has been put together.

Jeremy Corbyn.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Last month I raised a case of Albert Thompson, a man who has lived and worked here for decades, paid his taxes and yet been denied National Health Service treatment. The Prime Minister brushed it off. Will she say what she will now do to ensure that Mr Thompson gets the cancer treatment he urgently needs and is entitled to?

The right hon. Gentleman did indeed raise the case of Albert Thompson. It was not brushed off. The Home Office have been in contact with Mr Thompson's representatives. First of all, I want to make one point very clear that no urgent treatment should be withheld by the NHS, regardless of ability or willingness to pay. I also want to make clear that, as it happens, Mr Thompson is not part of the Windrush generation that I have just spoken about in answer to the first question. Finally, clinicians have been looking at Mr Thompson's case and he will be receiving the treatment he needs.

On 20 March, the Prime Minister wrote to me, stating that, while I sympathise with Mr Thompson, we encourage him to make the appropriate application and provide evidence of his settled status here. Yesterday we learnt that, in 2010, the Home Office destroyed landing cards for a generation of Commonwealth citizens. So I have told people that we cannot find you in our system. Did the Prime Minister, the then Home Secretary, sign off that decision?

The Prime Minister?

No, the decision to destroy the landing cards was taken in 2009 under a Labour Government system.

Mr Speaker, all the evidence isOrder. I said the Prime Minister must be heard, the Leader of the Opposition must be heard, and he will be. Jeremy Corbyn.

All the evidenceOrder. Order. There was a lot of this yesterday, very noisy and extremely stupid barracking.

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