Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing UK citizenship from dual nationals prosecuted for membership of a rape gang.

The power to deprive a person of their British citizenship is already provided for in Section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 where it is conducive to the public good. Deprivation of citizenship is used against the most dangerous people, such as terrorists, extremists and serious and organised criminals, including those involved in group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation. Similarly, those foreign nationals who commit the same heinous crimes against children should be in no doubt that we will do everything possible to ensure their deportation from the UK.