Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people (a) were granted and (b) held UK citizenship in each year since 1993.

Since 2011, the Home Office has published data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website.

The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2023

Data relating to earlier applications can be found here:

www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#citizenship

There are no records of the number of people who are automatically British from birth and no data is held to show the number of people who hold UK citizenship each year.