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<p>The British Nationality Act 1981 provides the Secretary of State with powers to
deprive a person of citizenship status only under the circumstances set out at sections
40(2) and 40(3) of the Act. Section 40(2) allows the Secretary of State to deprive
any person of British citizenship, should they deem it conducive to the public good
to do so. Section 40(3) allows the Secretary of State to deprive a person who has
obtained citizenship by naturalisation or registration, where the Secretary of State
is satisfied that citizenship was obtained by means of fraud, false representation,
or concealment of material fact.</p><p>Detail on the numbers of conducive deprivation
orders made under Section 40(2) of the 1981 British Nationality Act, are published
in the Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers. Six reports
have been published to date providing the number of deprivations of citizenship orders
made up until the end of 2021 and can be found at the below links:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fhm-government-transparency-report-on-the-use-of-disruptive-and-investigatory-powers&data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hqd0FWCx0GW%2FXWkwhVSfiHmflAkQS1Pkqapag%2Fo0bdw%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-government-transparency-report-on-the-use-of-disruptive-and-investigatory-powers</a></p><p><a
href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fdisruptive-and-investigatory-powers-hm-government-transparency-report&data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E2QzZd8xbGkf8Q9E1XSVgrioKIyv6rBVEJjlK05U7XA%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disruptive-and-investigatory-powers-hm-government-transparency-report</a></p><p><a
href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fdisruptive-and-investigatory-powers-transparency-report-2018&data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DTs%2FZrY%2F0dW54V52Cdoe46WFTjaXpMHECRUF3p8OtJg%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disruptive-and-investigatory-powers-transparency-report-2018</a></p><p><a
href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Ftransparency-report-disruptive-powers-2018-to-2019&data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XBpsLxOJjwjcdVdmbFGk6wg8qdBFj3Bm8P1MVQBYbuI%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transparency-report-disruptive-powers-2018-to-2019</a></p><p><a
href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fdisruptive-powers-2020&data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xh%2FqFUZWPjMLPgxKrRBc8fs4scOT6X90anrmqS8mTmA%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disruptive-powers-2020</a></p><p><a
href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcounter-terrorism-disruptive-powers-report-2021&data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DmqUxbsDX5n6SeyqQ8KzTxIZEv2RQN3fHZE7DoN7Jf8%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counter-terrorism-disruptive-powers-report-2021</a></p><p>More
recent data will be published in future publications in relation to deprivation of
British citizenship 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981.</p><p>Section 40(3)
of the 1981 British Nationality Act, allows for deprivation of citizenship where fraud,
false representation or concealment of material facts have been used to obtain British
citizenship. Since February 2020 these figures have been published via the Transparency
report on asylum data, which can be found using the link below:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fimmigration-and-protection-data-q2-2023&data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C6050f5761e424453c1a508dbce45f058%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330572020466508%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=F6%2BlwNoqSeneiKYqxJDRag5Uz682vG%2F1SdXa26iwTJI%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">Immigration and protection data: Q2 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p>
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