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1670730

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people (a) were granted and (b) held UK citizenship in each year since 1993.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	2429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>Since 2011, the Home Office has published data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website.</p><p>The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fvisas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2023&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIan.Page%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C0fd42ac1b24f49e85b3c08dbad3e6427%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638294255692779769%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fntzjp8AXZT0DZdMr6HAq49eWecFfFUCQHIzr0KaDgs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2023</a></p><p>Data relating to earlier applications can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-system-statistics-data-tables%23citizenship&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIan.Page%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cae7b37b9f1814fe38fa808dbef4323e9%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638366843858930615%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=2Kwx%2FZo%2BFEzKp3wKn9BBDT30D53Pn33gJPieA16zszU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#citizenship</a></p><p>There are no records of the number of people who are automatically British from birth and no data is held to show the number of people who hold UK citizenship each year.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/11/2023 17:20:14 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1669173

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had their British citizenship removed for (a) conduct that causes harm to the UK and (b) fraud in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	1332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <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) (if deemed to be conducive to the public good) and 40(3) (citizenship was obtained by means of fraud, false representation, or concealment of material fact) of the Act.</p><p>Details on the numbers of conducive deprivation orders made under Section 40(2) of the Act, are published in the Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers. Seven reports have been published to date providing the number of deprivations of citizenship orders made up until the end of 2022 and are all published online. The latest can be found at this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counter-terrorism-disruptive-powers-report-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counter-terrorism-disruptive-powers-report-2022</a></p><p>Numbers of Section 40(3) deprivation orders can be found in quarterly published transparency data at the link below: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/11/2023 17:31:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1663135

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had their British citizenship removed under the British Nationality Act 1981 in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	200989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <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&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=hqd0FWCx0GW%2FXWkwhVSfiHmflAkQS1Pkqapag%2Fo0bdw%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=E2QzZd8xbGkf8Q9E1XSVgrioKIyv6rBVEJjlK05U7XA%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=DTs%2FZrY%2F0dW54V52Cdoe46WFTjaXpMHECRUF3p8OtJg%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=XBpsLxOJjwjcdVdmbFGk6wg8qdBFj3Bm8P1MVQBYbuI%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xh%2FqFUZWPjMLPgxKrRBc8fs4scOT6X90anrmqS8mTmA%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce5990a53c8d42e84eb908dbce2b44f4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330457459301759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=DmqUxbsDX5n6SeyqQ8KzTxIZEv2RQN3fHZE7DoN7Jf8%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7CIan.Westwood3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C6050f5761e424453c1a508dbce45f058%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330572020466508%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=F6%2BlwNoqSeneiKYqxJDRag5Uz682vG%2F1SdXa26iwTJI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration and protection data: Q2 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/10/2023 13:07:03 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1660993

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether new British citizens receive a letter congratulating them on obtaining British citizenship.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	199818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2023 answer text <p>All individuals who attend a citizenship ceremony to become a British Citizen receive a welcome pack which includes a letter from the Secretary of State for the Home Department welcoming them into our national community.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 25/09/2023 09:11:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1641041

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the High Court decision in R(Roehrig) v SSHD EWHC 31 (Admin) of January 2023, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to confirm the British citizenship status of people born between January 1983 and October 2000 who are affected by that case.
	tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
	tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
	uin	187077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>We introduced the Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Bill on 24 May 2023 to address this issue.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/06/2023 16:25:03 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1588338

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish the criteria considered when making the decision to deprive an individual of their British citizenship under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Luton North
	tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
	uin	150645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2023 answer text <p>The Nationality and Borders Act 2022 amends provisions concerning the requirement to give notice before making a deprivation order. The power to deprive an individual of British citizenship is provided by section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981.</p><p> </p><p>The British Nationality Act 1981 provides the Secretary of State with powers to deprive a person of citizenship status on ‘conducive to the public good’ grounds, or where a person obtained citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of material fact.</p><p> </p><p>Detail on the numbers of deprivation orders made are published in reports which appear on the gov.uk website.</p><p>(<em>see the Government Transparency Reports: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers, &amp; an immigration statistics report dated 23 February 2023</em>).</p><p> </p><p>The latest HMG Counter-Terrorism Disruptive Powers Report 2021 lists conduct which the Government considers may mean that it is ‘conducive to the public good’ to deprive.</p><p> </p><p>Reflecting the serious nature of the power, every decision to deprive an individual on ‘conducive to the public good’ grounds, is taken personally by the Home Secretary. Those decisions are made following careful consideration of advice from officials and lawyers and in accordance with international law, including the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Each case is assessed individually, and every decision comes with a right of appeal.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 150644 150646 150647 question first answered 28/02/2023 14:58:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1588340

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had their British citizenship revoked since the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 came into effect.
	tabling member constituency	Luton North
	tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
	uin	150647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2023 answer text <p>The Nationality and Borders Act 2022 amends provisions concerning the requirement to give notice before making a deprivation order. The power to deprive an individual of British citizenship is provided by section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981.</p><p> </p><p>The British Nationality Act 1981 provides the Secretary of State with powers to deprive a person of citizenship status on ‘conducive to the public good’ grounds, or where a person obtained citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of material fact.</p><p> </p><p>Detail on the numbers of deprivation orders made are published in reports which appear on the gov.uk website.</p><p>(<em>see the Government Transparency Reports: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers, &amp; an immigration statistics report dated 23 February 2023</em>).</p><p> </p><p>The latest HMG Counter-Terrorism Disruptive Powers Report 2021 lists conduct which the Government considers may mean that it is ‘conducive to the public good’ to deprive.</p><p> </p><p>Reflecting the serious nature of the power, every decision to deprive an individual on ‘conducive to the public good’ grounds, is taken personally by the Home Secretary. Those decisions are made following careful consideration of advice from officials and lawyers and in accordance with international law, including the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Each case is assessed individually, and every decision comes with a right of appeal.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 150644 150645 150646 question first answered 28/02/2023 14:58:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1507208

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take legislative steps to create (a) English, (b) Irish, (c) Scottish and (d) Welsh citizen status.
	tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
	uin	53362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2022 answer text <p>British citizenship is the nationality defined in the British Nationality Act 1981, held by those with a close connection to the UK. There are no plans to change this.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/09/2022 14:58:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1483352

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance document Affordability fee waiver: Citizenship registration for individuals under the age of 18, published on 26 May 2022, for what reasons her policy objectives in that assessment do not include reference to the objective in the British Nationality Act 1981 that British citizenship is held by all persons sharing connection to the UK; and whether it is her Department's policy for that objective to be met through the Citizenship registration process for individuals under the age of 18.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	25890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The guidance ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/citizenship-fee-waiver-for-individuals-under-18-caseworker-guidance" target="_blank">Applications for a citizenship fee waiver for individuals under the age of 18</a>’ sets out the policy on applications that may be eligible for a fee waiver or exception, not the Home Office’s overarching nationality policy.</p><p>The registration provisions within the BNA 1981 allow for children with a close connection to the UK to be registered as a British citizen. The Home Office’s Nationality policy is published on gov.uk and guidance on citizenship can be accessed via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/british-citizenship-nationality-guidance" target="_blank">British citizenship (nationality guidance) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 30/06/2022 14:38:08 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1440625

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much revenue they have raised above the relevant administrative costs from the fee charged to adults to register their entitlement to citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981, for each year since the current fee level was set.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL6934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information in the format requested.</p><p>We do not have a separate code or field for fees collected for adults to register their entitlement to citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 28/03/2022 15:46:38 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett