Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of deprivation of citizenship have been (a) considered and (b) confirmed in each year for which data is available.

The British Nationality Act 1981 provides the Secretary of State with powers to deprive a person of citizenship status. Section 40(2) allows the Secretary of State to deprive any person of British citizenship, should they deem it conducive to the public good to do so. Section 40(3) allows the Secretary of State to deprive a person who has obtained citizenship by naturalisation or registration, where the Secretary of State is satisfied that citizenship was obtained by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of material fact

Three reports have been published to date in 2015, 2017 and 2018, which provide figures for section 40(2) deprivations, those where the Home Office has deemed that to deprive individuals of their citizenship is conducive to the public good. Figures for May 2010 to December 2014 are included in the 2015 report, figures for 2015 are in the 2017 report and the annual figures for 2016 and 2017 are listed in the 2018 report. The links to these reports are below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473603/51973_Cm_9151_Transparency_Accessible.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/593668/58597_Cm_9420_Transparency_report_web.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disruptive-and-investigatory-powers-transparency-report-2018

This published data relates to cases where deprivation decisions have been taken, data relating to cases considered but not progressed is not available.
Data relating to deprivation on fraud grounds under section 40 (3) is not currently published.