Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2023 to Question 186725 on Naturalisation: Applications, how many and what proportion of total naturalisation applications consisted of non-straightforward applications in the last 12 months.

The Home Office publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website. This includes the total number of applications received and the number of those that were non-straightforward. The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2023