Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of naturalisation applications took (a) less than 6 months, (b) between 6 and 9 months, (c) between 9 and 12 months and (d) more than 12 months to be concluded in each of the last three years.
The information requested is set out in the table below:
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
Less than 6 months | 96.38% | 98.05% | 97.76% |
6-9 Months | 2.77% | 1.36% | 1.68% |
10-12 Months | 0.50% | 0.29% | 0.23% |
Over 12 Months | 0.34% | 0.30% | 0.33% |
Note: Figures for 2014 include cases decided up to and including September 2014 , in line with published data. | |||