Dual Nationality

(asked on 22nd February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people and from which countries have had their dual citizenship revoked since the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 came into effect.


Answered by
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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 28th February 2023

The Nationality and Borders Act 2022 amends provisions concerning the requirement to give notice before making a deprivation order. The power to deprive an individual of British citizenship is provided by section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981.

The British Nationality Act 1981 provides the Secretary of State with powers to deprive a person of citizenship status on ‘conducive to the public good’ grounds, or where a person obtained citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of material fact.

Detail on the numbers of deprivation orders made are published in reports which appear on the gov.uk website.

(see the Government Transparency Reports: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers, & an immigration statistics report dated 23 February 2023).

The latest HMG Counter-Terrorism Disruptive Powers Report 2021 lists conduct which the Government considers may mean that it is ‘conducive to the public good’ to deprive.

Reflecting the serious nature of the power, every decision to deprive an individual on ‘conducive to the public good’ grounds, is taken personally by the Home Secretary. Those decisions are made following careful consideration of advice from officials and lawyers and in accordance with international law, including the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Each case is assessed individually, and every decision comes with a right of appeal.

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