Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money has been received by his Department as a result of fees for applications by British-born children to register their right to British citizenship in each of the last five years.

The Home Office does not record fees received from applications by British-born children separately to a unique account code within our accounting software, and therefore does not have sufficiently detailed management information to breakdown income into any component categories, for example by spouse/partner/child applications.

Amount received from Visa/Citizenship applications are not differentiated between the various categories in which they are received. We do not have a separate code or field for children’s nationality applications. Our ledger will not allow us to provide this level of detail.