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<p>(a) The Secretary of State publishes the number of passports withdrawn under the
Royal Prerogative in the annual Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory
Powers. The last Transparency Report was published in July 2018. A link to that report
can be found here;</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/727961/CCS207_CCS0418538240-1_Transparency_Report_2018_Web_Accessible.pdf"
target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/727961/CCS207_CCS0418538240-1_Transparency_Report_2018_Web_Accessible.pdf</a></p><p>(b)
Citizenship is not withdrawn under the Royal Prerogative, it is the British Nationality
Act 1981 that provides the Secretary of State with powers to deprive a person of citizenship
status under the circumstances set out at sections 40(2) and 40(3) of the Act.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 citizenship was obtained
by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of material fact.</p><p>Three
reports have been published to date in 2015, 2017 and 2018, which have included figures
for section 40(2) deprivations. Figures from May 2010 to December 2014 are included
in the 2015 report, from January to December 2015 in the 2017 report and January 2016
to December 2017 in the 2018 report. The links to these reports are below:</p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473603/51973_Cm_9151_Transparency_Accessible.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473603/51973_Cm_9151_Transparency_Accessible.pdf</a></p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/593668/58597_Cm_9420_Transparency_report_web.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/593668/58597_Cm_9420_Transparency_report_web.pdf</a></p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disruptive-and-investigatory-powers-transparency-report-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disruptive-and-investigatory-powers-transparency-report-2018</a></p><p>
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