Anne Main calls on the new Home Secretary to look into why no electronic backup was taken before the Windrush immigration documents were destroyed.
I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his wonderful new position. The Windrush generation, like many others, were a generation of pen, paper and hard-copy documents. On the decision in 2009 to do away with those hard-copy documents, will he, when he has a quiet moment, look back and see why no decision was made to back them up, in a computer age, and how that decision was brought about by officials or those leading the Department at the time?
My hon. Friend makes an important point that deserves to be looked at.
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