I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve heard it said the destruction took place in response to concerns over the forthcoming General Data Protection
Regulation. If that is the reason, then it would be a case of a knee-jerk response to the legislation without actually thinking through whether there is a justifiable need to retain those items of personal information – and a salutary reminder to those of
us impacted by GDPR not to start throwing out the babies with bathwater.
Neil.
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Subject: Home Office destroyed Windrush landing cards, says ex-staffer
The Home Office destroyed thousands of landing card slips recording Windrush immigrants’ arrival dates in the UK, despite staff warnings that the move would make it harder to check the records of older Caribbean-born residents experiencing
residency difficulties.
A former Home Office employee said the records, stored in the basement of a government tower block, were a vital resource for case workers when they were asked to find information about someone’s arrival date in the UK from the West Indies – usually when
the individual was struggling to resolve immigration status problems.
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