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1648223

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fee waiver applications for children applying for British citizenship were for children in care between June (a) 2021-2022 and (b) 2022-2023.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
	uin	191425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office monitors the number of fee waiver applications for children registering for British citizenship. However, management information in this area is currently being collated, reviewed and assured, and we are therefore not in a position to share figures at this time. We are however considering the best mechanism for updating Parliament with this information when available and will do so at the earliest appropriate opportunity.</p><p>Prior to 16 June 2022, an application to register as a British citizen as a child, required the appropriate application fee to be paid and there was no discretion to waive the citizenship application fee.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/07/2023 13:04:17 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1648221

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	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 publish the number of fee waiver applications for children registering for British citizenship since June 2022, broken down by quarter.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
	uin	191423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office monitors the number of fee waiver applications for children registering for British citizenship. However, management information in this area is currently being collated, reviewed and assured, and we are therefore not in a position to share figures at this time. We are however considering the best mechanism for updating Parliament with this information when available and will do so at the earliest appropriate opportunity.</p><p>Prior to 16 June 2022, an application to register as a British citizen as a child, required the appropriate application fee to be paid and there was no discretion to waive the citizenship application fee.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/07/2023 13:02:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1648222

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of children applying for British citizenship had their application fees waived since (a) June 2022 and (b) June 2021.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
	uin	191424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office monitors the number of fee waiver applications for children registering for British citizenship. However, management information in this area is currently being collated, reviewed and assured, and we are therefore not in a position to share figures at this time. We are however considering the best mechanism for updating Parliament with this information when available and will do so at the earliest appropriate opportunity.</p><p>Prior to 16 June 2022, an application to register as a British citizen as a child, required the appropriate application fee to be paid and there was no discretion to waive the citizenship application fee.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 05/07/2023 15:58:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1624451

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	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 make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the cost of making an application for British citizenship for children who were born in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	183107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>A fee waiver for children wishing to register as British Citizens on the basis of affordability, along with a fee exception for children who are looked after by a Local Authority, were introduced on 16 June 2022.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/05/2023 16:38:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1467399

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to amend the British Nationality (General) Regulations 2003, SI 2003/548 to give effect to the intention in the Affordability fee waiver: Citizenship registration for individuals under the age of 18, guidance published on 26 May 2022, that a child’s application for registration as a British citizen is to be treated as made on the date the child request a waiver of the fee for making that application.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	11708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>The British Nationality Regulations 2003 state a nationality application must contain the person’s name, date and place of birth, and a declaration that the contents are true. This information is contained in a fee waiver request and can be treated as an application for citizenship on the date it is made. No change to the 2003 Regulations is therefore required.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/06/2022 16:04:05 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1436664

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken race and disability equality assessments of the fee for children to register as British citizens in the context of the Supreme Court judgment dated 2 February 2022 in R (on the application of The Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens) v Secretary of State for the Home Department.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
	uin	131316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Following the Court of Appeal’s ruling in February last year, the Home Office committed to reviewing the child registration fee in line with its duties under Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009.</p><p> </p><p>A Supreme Court hearing on a separate ground in this case took place on 23rd and 24th June 2021, with the judgement handed down on 2 February 2022. It has been important to give the Supreme Court the opportunity to give its view on the questions raised by this case before finalising the Section 55 assessment. We are now able to do so and will conclude the assessment, and associated review of the fee, shortly.</p><p> </p><p>We will share the results in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/03/2022 11:27:09 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 55128 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1436563

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 February 2022 to Question 119726, on British Nationality: Children, when her Department began that assessment of children’s best interests in respect of the child registration fee; and when she plans to complete that assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	131212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Following the Court of Appeal’s ruling in February last year, the Home Office committed to reviewing the child registration fee in line with its duties under Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009. The Home Office is undertaking a comprehensive review of the fee, which will be finalised shortly, following the Supreme Court judgement of 2 February 2022.</p><p> </p><p>The results will be shared in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/03/2022 11:24:36 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 55107 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1436562

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 February 2022 to Question 119726, on British Nationality: Children, if she will confirm that the findings of fact made by the courts in R (on the application of The Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 3 will be acted upon in assessing children’s best interests in respect of the child registration fee.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	131211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Following the Court of Appeal’s ruling in February last year, the Home Office committed to reviewing the child registration fee in line with its duties under Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009. The Home Office is undertaking a comprehensive review of the fee, which will be finalised shortly, following the Supreme Court judgement of 2 February 2022.</p><p> </p><p>The results will be shared in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/03/2022 11:23:56 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 55104 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1420558

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	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 make it her policy to remove British Citizenship fees for children under the age of 18.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	119726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office acknowledged the Court of Appeal’s ruling of 18 February 2021 and is reviewing the child registration fee in line with its duties under Section 55.</p><p> </p><p>A Supreme Court hearing on a separate ground in this case took place on 23rd and 24th June 2021, with the judgement handed down on 2 February 2022. It has been important to give the Supreme Court the opportunity to give its view on the questions raised by this case before finalising the Section 55 assessment. We are now able to do so and hope to conclude the assessment shortly. We will share the results in due course.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, the fees set out in the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 continue to be charged.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 15/02/2022 11:01:08 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1366168

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to introduce a fee waiver scheme for children born in the UK who are applying to register their British citizenship; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	69572
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office acknowledged the Court of Appeal judgment in PRCBC &amp; O v Secretary of State for the Home Department on 18 February and committed to reviewing the child citizenship registration fee in line with its duties under Section 55.</p><p>A Supreme Court hearing on Child Registration fees also took place on 23<sup>rd</sup> and 24<sup>th</sup> June.</p><p>We await the final judgment and the ongoing section 55 review before publishing results.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 11/11/2021 10:10:25 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas