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House of Lords written question HL1014.

Question for Home Office

UIN HL1014, tabled on 18 July 2017

Her Majesty's Government how many citizens of other countries have been given British citizenship in each of the last 10 years.

Answered on

24 July 2017

Information on the numbers of grants of British citizenship is published in Citizenship table cz_01 in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, January - March 2016’, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615149/citizenship-jan-mar-2017-tables.ods

The information is summarised is this table:

British citizenship grants, 2007 to 2016

Year

Grant Decisions

2007

164,637

2008

129,377

2009

203,789

2010

195,094

2011

177,934

2012

194,370

2013

208,095

2014

125,754

2015

118,109

2016

149,421

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