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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

1452431

registered interest
date	18/03/2022
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	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 naturalisation applications were completed within her Department’s target of six months in each of the last four reporting periods for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	142437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2022 answer text <p>Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on naturalisation applications completed within six months, this data for the previous 4 quarters can be found on the Gov.uk website at.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q1-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q1-2021</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2021</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2021</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q4-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q4-2021</a></p><p>The last set of data was published on 24<sup>th</sup> February 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/03/2022 10:30:25 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

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

1433662

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
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 2 February 2022 to Question 111653, on British Nationality, whether her Department plans to consult relevant stakeholders to inform the drafting of the statutory guidance for the Nationality and Borders Bill.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	126732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The nationality guidance is not statutory guidance with a duty to consult on. We will, however, engage with relevant nationality stakeholders prior to implementation of the nationality provisions of the Bill.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 01/03/2022 11:45:35 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1419170

registered interest
date	02/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
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 people who were issued a Tier 1 (Investor) visa between June 2008 and April 2015 have (a) applied for and (b) been granted UK citizenship.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	117045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable member to the answer I gave to her previous question (UIN<strong>111688)</strong> on 2 February 2022</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 117046 question first answered 07/02/2022 16:35:27 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1418614

registered interest
date	01/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
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 28 January 2022 to Question 105513, on British Nationality, how a person can also seek to exercise their statutory right to appeal against a decision in the event that they have not been informed of that decision as proposed by the provisions of the Nationality and Borders Bill.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	115896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2022 answer text <p>We do not wish to deny a person their statutory right of appeal where we have made a decision to deprive. The proposed amendment to section 40A of the British Nationality Act 1981 preserves the right of appeal in cases where the notice of a decision to deprive has not been served. Once a person is in contact with the Home Office, they are given a copy of the deprivation decision notice. They can then seek to exercise their statutory right of appeal against the decision.</p><p>Any British citizen can be deprived of that citizenship where it is conducive to the public good, unless it would make them stateless. Those who have registered or naturalised as British can be deprived where citizenship was obtained by fraudulent means. The proposed amendment to section 40A does not seek to alter or widen the power to deprive; it merely seeks to enable decisions to be served validly where the Home Office is unable to give written notice, such as where the person concerned has travelled to a war zone.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 115900 question first answered 04/02/2022 14:30:27 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1418870

registered interest
date	01/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
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 28 January 2022 to Question 105513 on British Nationality, whether the provisions referenced only apply to those who have been naturalised or to all British citizens.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	115900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2022 answer text <p>We do not wish to deny a person their statutory right of appeal where we have made a decision to deprive. The proposed amendment to section 40A of the British Nationality Act 1981 preserves the right of appeal in cases where the notice of a decision to deprive has not been served. Once a person is in contact with the Home Office, they are given a copy of the deprivation decision notice. They can then seek to exercise their statutory right of appeal against the decision.</p><p>Any British citizen can be deprived of that citizenship where it is conducive to the public good, unless it would make them stateless. Those who have registered or naturalised as British can be deprived where citizenship was obtained by fraudulent means. The proposed amendment to section 40A does not seek to alter or widen the power to deprive; it merely seeks to enable decisions to be served validly where the Home Office is unable to give written notice, such as where the person concerned has travelled to a war zone.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 115896 question first answered 04/02/2022 14:30:26 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1416327

registered interest
date	25/01/2022
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 publish the (a) timeline and (b) consultation process for drafting the statutory guidance for the Nationality and Borders Bill; and where responsibility for the guidance for the different parts of that Bill sits.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	111653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>Any statutory guidance will be developed in line with usual process, which includes any requirements to consult. The timetable for implementing the guidance will be dependent on the passage of the Nationality and Borders Bill.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 02/02/2022 12:18:29 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1416479

registered interest
date	25/01/2022
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, how many and what proportion of people who entered the UK on a Tier 1 (Investor) visa have (a) applied for and (b) been granted UK citizenship.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	111688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>The data is not available. Immigration statistics for the year ending September 2021 are published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics" target="_blank">Migration statistics</a>. While these include statistics for naturalisation as a British citizen based on residence, they do not identify the specific routes of entry used to secure this residence.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 02/02/2022 16:20:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran