Sajid Javid has declined requests to allow wrongly detained Windrush citizens to see the Capita files. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
The private company that handled the Windrush cases had a Home Office contract that paid extra money if more people were removed from Britain, according to newly released documents.
The information, sent to a parliamentary committee investigating the Windrush scandal, shows that the Home Office’s contract with Capita gave the company a bonus payment of 2.5% on top of the normal fee above a certain target for removals from the UK, rising to 12.5% if the total exceeded the target by 10%.
The detail is among documents released by the cross-party joint committee on human rights (JCHR), chaired by the Labour MP Harriet Harman, which comprises MPs and peers.
The committee condemned the Home Office in June after Capita sent two Windrush citizens who had been continuously resident in the UK for about 50 years to immigration detention centres before planned removals.
The committee said Paulette Wilson and Anthony Bryan had experienced a “total violation of their human rights”.
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