Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost to her Department was of administering applications for (a) naturalisation (b) registration to become a British citizen in each year since 2015.

The estimated average cost of processing nationality naturalisation and registration applications in each year since 2015 is detailed within the appropriate publications below:

Naturalisation

2015/16

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/768/pdfs/uksiem_20150768_en.pdf

2016/17

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/503759/2016_Unit_Costs_Table.pdf

2017/18

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/606616/Unit_cost_table_2017.pdf

Registration

2015/16

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/768/pdfs/uksiem_20150768_en.pdf