Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had British citizenship revoked in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 allows the Secretary of State to make an order to deprive a person of their British citizenship where it is conducive to the public good to do so, or where a naturalised British citizen has used fraud, false representation or concealment of material fact to obtain British citizenship.
Between 1997 and 2006 no person was deprived of British citizenship by the Secretary of State. The number of people who have been deprived of citizenship under section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 since 2006 is set out in the table below:
Year | Number of Deprivation Orders Made |
2006 | 1 |
2007 | 1 |
2008 | 0 |
2009 | 2 |
2010 | 5 |
2011 | 6 |
2012 | 6 |
2013 | 18 |
2014 | 19 |
2015 Jan - Oct | 16 |
This information has been provided from local management information and is not a national statistic. As such it should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.
Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nationals aged (a) between 15 and 64 and (b) over 65 from each EEA country were granted permanent residence in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Under the EU law, EEA nationals (and their family members) have an initial right to reside in the UK for three months without conditions. To have a right to reside in the country longer than this the EEA national must be exercising a Treaty Right, described in the Immigration (EEA) Regulations 2006 as being a qualified person. To be considered a quali-fied person, they must be a jobseeker, worker, self-employed person, self-sufficient or a student. After living in the UK for a continuous period of five years in accordance with the conditions set out in the EEA Regulations, an EEA national and any family member will acquire the right of permanent residence in the UK and apply for documentation confirming this right.
The total numbers of documents certifying permanent residence by country of nationality are published in table ee_02 ‘Immigration Statistics, April-June 2015’ table ee_02 for 2004 to 2014, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics . Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 26 May 2016. A breakdown by age grouping is not published.
The issuing of permanent residence documents to EEA nationals commenced in April 2006 and therefore there are no statistics relating to EEA nationals available prior to that date.
Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people renounced British citizenship in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The requested information regarding renunciations is provided in the following table.
Renunciations of British citizenship | ||||
Year | Number of renunciations | |||
2002 | 1,194 | |||
2003 | 755 | |||
2004 | 680 | |||
2005 | 589 | |||
2006 | 601 | |||
2007 | 583 | |||
2008 | 537 | |||
2009 | 568 | |||
2010 | 597 | |||
2011 | 492 | |||
2012 | 609 | |||
2013 | 602 | |||
2014 | 614 | |||
Source: | ||||
Home Office: Immigration Statistics April-June 2015, cz_10 | ||||
The latest Home Office immigration statistics on grant of renunciations of British citizenship are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, April-June 2015’ table cz_10 for 2002 to 2014, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics .
Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 21 May 2016.
Information regarding people resuming British citizenship is not available.
Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people subsequently resumed British citizenship after renouncing it in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The requested information regarding renunciations is provided in the following table.
Renunciations of British citizenship | ||||
Year | Number of renunciations | |||
2002 | 1,194 | |||
2003 | 755 | |||
2004 | 680 | |||
2005 | 589 | |||
2006 | 601 | |||
2007 | 583 | |||
2008 | 537 | |||
2009 | 568 | |||
2010 | 597 | |||
2011 | 492 | |||
2012 | 609 | |||
2013 | 602 | |||
2014 | 614 | |||
Source: | ||||
Home Office: Immigration Statistics April-June 2015, cz_10 | ||||
The latest Home Office immigration statistics on grant of renunciations of British citizenship are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, April-June 2015’ table cz_10 for 2002 to 2014, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics .
Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 21 May 2016.
Information regarding people resuming British citizenship is not available.
Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nationals aged (a) between 15 and 64 and (b) over 65 from each EEA country were granted British citizenship in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The latest available Home Office immigration statistics on grants of British citizenship by age, sex, geographical region and year of grant are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, April-June 2015’ table cz_05 for 2002 to 2014, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics
Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 26 May 2016. Information is not available for periods prior to 2002.
Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nationals aged (a) between 15 and 64 and (b) over 65 from each non-EEA country were granted British citizenship in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The latest available Home Office immigration statistics on grants of British citizenship by age, sex, geographical region and year of grant are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, April-June 2015’ table cz_05 for 2002 to 2014, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics
Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 26 May 2016. Information is not available for periods prior to 2002.
Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nationals aged (a) between 15 and 64 and (b) over 65 from each non-EEA country were granted indefinite leave to stay in the UK in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The available data is provided in the table below:
Grants of settlement on removal of time limit, by age | ||||||
Year | Total Grants | Children (under 16) |
| 65+ | Age unknown | |
2010 | 234,707 | 43,776 | 188,550 | 2,186 | 195 | |
2011 | 160,994 | 30,405 | 128,690 | 1,845 | 54 | |
2012 | 124,473 | 21,958 | 101,160 | 1,336 | 19 | |
2013 | 152,238 | 24,235 | 126,433 | 1,557 | 13 | |
2014 | 102,413 | 15,428 | 86,178 | 805 | 2 | |
Source: | ||||||
Home Office: Immigration Statistics April-June 2015, summary of data in table se_05 | ||||||
Table notes: | ||||||
1. Excludes EEA nationals. | ||||||
2. Excludes a small minority of persons given settlement on arrival (1,644 in 2014) | ||||||
The latest Home Office immigration statistics on grants of settlement (permanent residence) by age are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, April-June 2015’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics .
Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 25 August 2016.
Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries' citizens (a) may and (b) may not enter the UK without a visa.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Appendix 2 to Appendix V of the Immigration Rules - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules - sets out those countries or territorial entities whose nationals or citizens need a visa in advance of travel to the UK for any purpose. Nationals or citizens of countries or territories that are not included in paragraph 1(a) of Appendix 2 do not need a visa in advance of travel to the UK as a visitor or for any other purpose for less than six months.
Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department paid in spectrum charges in each financial year from 1999-2000 to 2014-15.
Answered by Mike Penning
The table below details the amount the Department paid in spectrum charges from 2009/10 to 2014/15. The variation in charges from 2010 is the result of Home Office reducing its holdings by sharing and releasing spectrum. Use of spectrum in the years from 1999 to 2009 remained at a constant level and our records indicate this was charged at £2,916,000 per annum.
Financial Year/ Cost:
2009-2010 £2,916,000
2010-2011 £2,819,820
2011-2012 £2,317,836
2012-2013 £1,779,309
2013-2014 £1,816,022
2014-2015 £1,325,654
Asked by: Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will merge the Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex police forces.
Answered by Mike Penning
Any request from police forces to merge would be considered where it is supported by a robust business case and has local consent. It is the role of directly elected local Police and Crime Commissioners to propose changes to local policing, not central government. It is not necessary for police forces to merge in order to become more efficient. Existing legislation places a strong duty on Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners to collaborate in the interests of efficiency and effectiveness. Many are demonstrating that they can collaborate without sacrificing local accountability and identity. For example, Sussex and Surrey are already working together on collaborations that include a joint IT solution, procurement, major crime, forensics, firearms and fleet.