British Nationality
(asked on 23rd October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to arrange for a review of the operation of her powers under Section 40, Subsection 4A of the British Nationality Act 1981.
The number of people who have been deprived of citizenship under section 40 subsections (2), (3) and (4A) in each of the last 5 years is as follows:
Year | Section 40(2) | Section 40(3) | Section 40(4A) |
2010 | 5 | 0 | - |
2011 | 6 | 0 | - |
2012 | 5 | 1 | - |
2013 | 8 | 10 | - |
2014 | 4 | 15 | 0 |
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.
The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, is currently undertaking the review of the operation of the power under Section 40(4A) of the British Nationality Act 1981, as required by section 40B of the Act.