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1678730

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Dual Nationality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their current estimate of the number of UK dual nationals; whether those estimates include a breakdown of the countries in which they are currently resident; and how many are resident in the other state in which they also hold citizenship.
tabling member printed	Lord Wallace of Saltaire
uin	HL1310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/01/2024 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>The Rt Hon. the Lord Wallace of Saltaire</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p>20 December 2023</p><p>Dear Lord Wallace,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking for the current estimate of the number of UK dual nationals; whether those estimates include a breakdown of the countries in which they are currently resident; and how many are resident in the other state in which they also hold citizenship <strong>(HL1310)</strong>.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) conducted the 2021 Census in England and Wales.</p><p>In order to answer your question, the ONS examined census ‘passports held’ data. Table 1 shows the number of dual passport holders resident in England and Wales.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of dual passport holders resident in England and Wales</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Dual passport (UK + another passport)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>E92000001 England</p></td><td><p>1,209,980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>W92000004 Wales</p></td><td><p>26,343</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Census 2021 (21 March 2021)</em></p><p>For similar data for Northern Ireland and Scotland, please contact the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency [1] (NISRA) and National Records of Scotland [2] (NRS) respectively.</p><p>As the Census collected data only from people currently resident in England and Wales at the time of collection, the ONS have no data identifying dual passport holding citizens residing outside England and Wales. This means we are unable to answer the second and third aspects of your question.</p><p>As the ONS continues its programme of transforming population and migration statistics, we will explore how to provide additional detail to meet user needs. This will include the possibility of obtaining an estimate of dual citizenship using administrative data as part of that programme.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.nisra.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nisra.gov.uk/</a></p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 04/01/2024 15:42:02 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL1310 (1).pdf title UK Statistics Authority
tabling member	1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire

1609960

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Dual Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any exceptions are made for dual nationals requiring an observation on their British passport if their second nationality could risk their safety when travelling abroad.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	180093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>There are exceptions in place to ensure the safety of those holding dual nationality when travelling due to the content of an observation. This may involve issuing an additional passport with restricted validity without including an observation. This is outlined in in published guidance on GOV.UK at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/names-aligning-names-on-foreign-documents/names-aligning-names-on-foreign-documents-accessible#When_observations_cause" target="_blank">Names: aligning names on foreign documents (accessible) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 17:11:30 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1588337

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	Dual 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 and from which countries have had their dual citizenship revoked since the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 came into effect.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	150644
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 150645 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

1588339

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	Dual Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the protection of people with dual nationality from being subject to deportation under Clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	150646
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 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

1229237

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Dual 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 passport applicants, have a dual nationality and use a name different in their application for a British passport than they use in their other passport.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	82444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>I refer to the previous response provided by Her Majesty’s Passport Office on 29 October 2015 to PQ 13210 regarding information on dual nationality.</p><p>No statistical information is available showing whether British citizens hold another citizenship.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/09/2020 14:37:23 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1185168

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Dual Nationality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of UK citizens who are dual nationals; of those, how many are estimated to be living in the UK; and what are the ten countries estimated to host the largest numbers of UK citizens with dual nationality living abroad.
tabling member printed	Lord Wallace of Saltaire
uin	HL2670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member printed Lord True grouped question UIN HL2671 question first answered 25/03/2020 13:50:19 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True attachment 1 file name HL2670_ HL2671.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire

1136509

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Dual Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions exist under the one name for all policy for citizens with dual nationality to maintain legal recognition of previous or original names.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	272919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The intent behind the policy is to have one name for all official purposes. Specific exceptions exist under the one names policy where a dual national cannot meet the requirements of the policy for reasons beyond their control, for example where there are restrictions on their ability to change their name in travel documents of their other nationality.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/07/2019 14:09:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker