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<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>
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