Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will remove the cost of UK citizenship for non-UK service personnel.

British citizenship is not a requirement for Service in the UK Armed Forces, and not all countries we recruit from permit their citizens to have dual nationality. There are no current plans therefore to remove the cost. We are, however, committed to removing visa fees for non-UK personnel who have served for four or more years and their families, whilst maintaining the option for non-UK personnel to choose to naturalise as a British citizen whilst still serving.