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British Nationality

Question for Home Office

UIN 81999, tabled on 28 August 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been deprived of British Citizenship in each year since 2010 by (a) nationality, (b) race, (c) ethnicity and (d) religion.

Answered on

7 September 2020

The Home Office publishes data relating to those deprived of British Citizenship.

Figures for conducive deprivation orders, which are made under Section 40(2) of the 1981 British Nationality Act, have been published as part of the HM Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers. Four reports have been published to date in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-government-transparency-report-on-the-use-of-disruptive-and-investigatory-powers

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disruptive-and-investigatory-powers-hm-government-transparency-report

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disruptive-and-investigatory-powers-transparency-report-2018

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transparency-report-disruptive-powers-2018-to-2019

Section 40(3) of the 1981 British Nationality Act, allows for deprivation of citizenship where fraud, false representation or concealment of material facts have been used to obtain British citizenship. Since February 2020 these figures have been published via the Transparency report on asylum data, which can be found using the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-february-2020

Breakdown by nationality, race, ethnicity and religion is not available in a reportable format within cost limits. There will also be instances where a person who has been deprived of British citizenship has not previously declared their race, ethnicity or religion to the Home Office.

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