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1064688

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date	21/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shamima Begum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what considerations satisfied him that depriving Shamima Begum of her British citizenship was conducive to the public good.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	224351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>We do not comment on individual cases.</p><p>The British Nationality Act 1981 provides the Secretary of State with powers to deprive a person of citizenship status. 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>Conducive deprivation will be used in the context of National Security, espionage, acts of terrorism, unacceptable (extremist) behaviours, war crimes and serious and organised crime.</p><p>As I explained to the House on Wednesday, I carefully consider such decisions personally on a case by case basis and where a decision has to be made, I will have to be confident it is not only conducive to the public good but is compliant with the law.</p><p>I will look at the secret intelligence and all relevant material to determine the threat. Officials and partner agencies will put together a case, setting out all relevant information to satisfy me that the conducive test has been met.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 01/03/2019 11:42:44 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1064687

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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 UK citizens have had that citizenship deprived under section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	224350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>The British Nationality Act 1981 provides the Secretary of State with powers to deprive a person of citizenship status. 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>Three reports have been published to date in 2015, 2017 and 2018, which provide figures for section 40(2) deprivations, those where the Home Office has deemed that to deprive individuals of their citizenship is conducive to the public good. Figures for May 2010 to December 2014 are included in the 2015 report, figures for 2015 are in the 2017 report and the annual figures for 2016 and 2017 are listed 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><br>Data relating to deprivation on fraud grounds under section 40 (3) is not currently published.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 01/03/2019 11:46:48 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1064689

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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 resident in the UK are currently under consideration for the deprivation of their British citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	224352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>For reasons of national security, it would not be appropriate to provide a breakdown of the total number of cases, or the number of cases specifically concerning people resident in the UK, that are currently under consideration for deprivation of their British citizenship on the basis that such action is conducive to the public good under section 40(2).</p><p>Where deprivation is on fraud grounds, we do not hold the data required to answer the question in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 224489 question first answered 01/03/2019 11:29:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1064756

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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 British Nationality Act 1981, how many cases of revoking British citizenship are under consideration by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	224489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>For reasons of national security, it would not be appropriate to provide a breakdown of the total number of cases, or the number of cases specifically concerning people resident in the UK, that are currently under consideration for deprivation of their British citizenship on the basis that such action is conducive to the public good under section 40(2).</p><p>Where deprivation is on fraud grounds, we do not hold the data required to answer the question in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 224352 question first answered 01/03/2019 11:29:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1064377

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to refund the fees paid by EU citizens who have chosen to apply for UK citizenship rather than for settled status.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	223902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister announced on 21 January, there will be no fee for applications under the EU Settlement Scheme when we roll out the scheme in full by 30 March. Anyone who has applied during the pilot phase, or who does so, will have their fee reimbursed. We have no plans to refund any fees paid for citizenship applications made by EU or non-EU citizens.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/03/2019 11:19:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock