Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what the average processing time is for a naturalisation decision from her Department and (b) how this compares to each year since 2016.

The Home Department publishes data on naturalisation applications made and completed every quarter on the Gov.uk website.

The most recent data set was published on 25 August 2022 and links to older migration transparency data and it can be found through the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data