Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for naturalisation as a British citizen her Department received by the applicant's country of origin in each year between 2017 and 2021; and how many and what proportion of these applicants were (a) granted naturalisation within (i) six months, (ii) 12 months and (iii) two years, (b) refused naturalisation and (c) are awaiting a decision on their application.

The Home Office publishes UK data on applications, grants, and refusals of British Nationality in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on applications and grants of British Citizenship, by year and nationality, are published in tables Cit_D01 and Cit_D02 of the Citizenship detailed data tables dataset. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2022.

The Home Office also publishes data on naturalisation applications made and completed each quarter as part of the Transparency data series. This includes performance against the six-month service standard for completing applications. The most recent data set was published on 24 November 2022 and can be found here: Transparency data: Visas and Citizenship Q3 2022