Question follow-through · 37114

British Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British citizens had their citizenship revoked in each of the last 10 years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 11 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 13 Mar 2025
Answer: 18 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British citizens had their citizenship revoked in each of the last 10 years.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2025
Answer published
The British Nationality Act 1981 provides the Secretary of State with powers to deprive a person of citizenship status only under the circumstances set out at sections 40(2) and 40(3) of the Act. Section 40(2) allows the Secretary of State to deprive any ...

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