Written Question
Thursday 4th January 2024
Asked by:
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
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.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe
- Shadow Minister (Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.
The Rt Hon. the Lord Wallace of Saltaire
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
20 December 2023
Dear Lord Wallace,
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 (HL1310).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) conducted the 2021 Census in England and Wales.
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.
Table 1: Number of dual passport holders resident in England and Wales
| Dual passport (UK + another passport) |
E92000001 England | 1,209,980 |
W92000004 Wales | 26,343 |
Source: Census 2021 (21 March 2021)
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.
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.
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.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
[1] https://www.nisra.gov.uk/
[2] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/
Written Question
Thursday 18th May 2023
Asked by:
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many times in the past year outside speakers invited to Civil Service events have had their invitations withdrawn after having their social media accounts vetted; and what criteria were used for such vetting.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe
- Shadow Minister (Treasury)
We do not centrally collate information on the number of people who are identified as unsuitable for speaking at Government events.
Civil Service Human Resources who sit within the Cabinet Office developed guidance for all Cross-Government Diversity networks. This requires the networks to carry out checks on external speakers prior to inviting them to participate in Civil Service events.
We are aware that some departments (including Cabinet Office) and agencies have adapted this guidance to apply to departmental Diversity Networks and learning events. We do not have a record of how many departments have adapted the guidance or whether they record information on speakers.
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