Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British citizenships were removed; what other citizenships were held by people impacted; and what the reason was for removal in each of the last five years.

Detail on the numbers of conducive deprivation orders made under Section 40(2) of the 1981 British Nationality Act, are published in the Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers. Eight reports have been published to date providing the number of deprivations of citizenship orders made up until the end of 2023 and can be found at the below links:

2015 - HM government transparency report 2015: disruptive and investigatory powers

2017 - Disruptive and investigatory powers: HM government transparency report - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

2018 - Disruptive and investigatory powers: transparency report 2018 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

2018/19 - Transparency report: disruptive powers 2018 to 2019 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

2020 - Disruptive powers 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

2021 - Counter-terrorism disruptive powers report 2021 - GOV.UK

2022 - Counter-terrorism disruptive powers report 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

2023 - Counter-terrorism disruptive powers report 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

More recent data will be published in future publications in relation to deprivation of British citizenship 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981.

The published data as referenced above does not include information on other citizenships held by those impacted or on the specific reasons for deprivation. To obtain that information would involve a manual interrogation of case files at a disproportionate cost.