Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's average processing time for reaching a decision on a naturalisation application was in each of the last five years.

The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website. This includes performance against the service standard for completing applications. The most recent Migration Transparency Data published in November 2023 shows that 99.98% of straightforward applications were decided within service standard.

The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2023.