MPS have voiced concerns this afternoon over the UK Government's planned deportation of 50 people to Jamaica.

In a letter, more than 170 MPs urged the Prime Minister to halt the plans until a review of the Windrush scandal is published.

Their concerns come as a leaked draft of the report recommended the government stop the deportation of foreign nationals who came to the UK during their childhoods.

The Windrush scandal saw thousands of people who came to the UK from the Carribbean between 1948 and 1971 told they were illegally in the country despite having lived and worked here for decades.

At least one man due to be deported on tomorrow's flight came to the UK when he was five years old, it has been reported.

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The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show was also warned by a law firm involved in the process, Duncan Lewis, that the group set to be deported includes "potential victims of trafficking, groomed as children by drugs gangs running county lines networks and later pursued in the criminal justice system as serious offenders".

Speaking in the House of Commons earlier, SNP shadow minister for immigration, Stuart McDonald, warned it was "hugely troubling" that the lessons learned review has not been published yet, and "totally unacceptable" that the planned flight can proceed before Windrush's lessons have been learned.

He went on: "Windrush should change everything. Instead the Home Office carries on as if nothing has changed. Will the minister admit that this flight will include people who were entitled to British nationality but couldn’t access it because of complicated and expensive nationality procedures, including for example one individual who was in the care system.

"When will access to British citizenship finally be made affordable and simple? Doesn’t he accept that many on this flight have a far stronger connection with Britain than Jamaica? As Stephen Shaw would put it, in reality many are more British than they are Jamaican.

"Will the minister confirm this flight will leave 41 British children separated from their fathers, and nine British citizens without partners or husbands? Is it not time to look at this legislation again? Finally written answers have confirmed that the Home Office has taken absolutely no interest in what happened to the people on its last charter flight to Jamaica … isn’t that the height of irresponsibility?"

Immigration minister Kevin Foster insisted there are no British nationals on the flight, adding: "I would make very clear – the law is very clear, the offences committed are very clear, and the way the Home Office applies these rules, we are very clear – it’s based on the criminality, not the nationality, of the offender.”

Labour MP David Lammy also put questions forward. As he stood to begin his questions, Home Secretary Priti Patel got up to leave - prompting cries of "shame" in the Chamber.

Lammy also brought up the Windrush scandal in relation to the deportation. He said: “Let me just remind the minister, 164 people were detained and deported, which the Government says it got wrong. On the back of that 5000 people were denied access to public services – healthcare, pensions, education, all that they were entitled to.”

Lammy too asked for reassurances that none of the 50 people on the flight are British nationals. 

The Tottenham MP also criticised the Government's descriptions of the crimes committed by those being deported.

Directing his question toward Foster, he said: "When he says to the House, or gives the impression that they are murderers and rapists – he knows that many of those are there for non-violent offences.

"We cannot at the same time in this House condemn county lines and those who would pimp young black children in this country and send those same children back to Jamaica for such drug offences.

"So I say to him: When will we see this lessons learned review? It was promised in March last year. It was then delayed until September. We are almost now two years on and people watching see the way that this government holds in such disrespect the contribution of West Indian, Caribbean and black people in this country. When – when will black lives matter once again?”

Downing Street has insisted all people on the flight have sentences of 12 months of longer.

Last week, the Prime Minister told MPs: "I think the whole House will understand that the people of this country will think it right to send back foreign national offenders."