Question follow-through · 12642

British Nationality: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grants of UK citizenship were made to people resident in Scotland in 2021.

answeredChris MurrayHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
6 Nov 2024
Answer
12 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grants of UK citizenship were made to people resident in Scotland in 2021.

  2. 6 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The Home Office publishes data on Settlement and Citizenship grants in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. However, this information is not broken down by place of residence or UK region.The published statistics can be found in the Sett...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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