Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants were granted British citizenship who had previously committed crimes in other countries in each year since 2010; and of what crimes those applicants had been convicted.

Information on how many individuals who were granted British citizenship who
had previously committed crimes in other countries is not aggregated in
national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a
disproportionately expensive manual case by case search to collate the data.

However where the Secretary of State is aware that a person has committed
crimes in other countries they would not normally be granted citizenship as the
good character requirement would not be satisfied.