British Nationality

(asked on 25th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK citizens have had their citizenship revoked by the Government since 2010.


Answered by
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Ben Wallace
This question was answered on 28th February 2019

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. 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

Data relating to deprivation on fraud grounds under section 40 (3) is not currently published.

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