THE Home Office’s Windrush compensation scheme has come under fresh fire after new figures show just 1 per cent of appeals were successful last year.

According to freedom of information data obtained by Labour MP Kate Osamor, only 42 out of 3,479 claimant appeals in 2021 resulted in a settlement. 

The MP said the figures, which were published in the i newspaper at the weekend, show that the appeals process is “not fit for purpose.” 

“The Home Office perpetrated the Windrush scandal,” she told the paper. “Now they are deciding how much compensation should be awarded to their victims. 

“The result is unsurprising — consistent and poor-quality decision-making resulting in insultingly small offers of compensation.”

She added: “Under those circumstances a fully independent and functioning appeals process is essential. That isn’t what we have.”

Under the scheme, claimants can request a review of the compensation sum if they find it unsatisfactory. However, the figures show that very few review outcomes are successful.

Anti-racism campaigner and co-chairwoman of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts Zita Holbourne branded the “woefully” low success rates for appeals “an absolute disgrace.” 

She told the Star it was “wicked” to deprive people who have already endured years of “trauma, exile and destitution” compensation that could provide them with peace and comfort in their retirement. 

“The scheme needs to urgently be removed from government control and the money in it distributed to those it was intended for,” she said. “This is a continuation of the Windrush scandal, it is racist, unjust and inhumane.”

A Home Office spokesperson said: “We do not recognise these figures. We continue to work with claimants to pay the maximum award available at the earliest point possible and to get the right decision first time.”