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British Nationality

Question for Home Office

UIN HL5076, tabled on 5 January 2022

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were deprived of their citizenship under section 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981 for each year from 2010 to 2018, broken down by (1) the grounds upon which those deprivation orders were made, (2) whether or not the individual had previously been granted refugee status, discretionary leave or humanitarian protection in the UK, (3) whether or not the individual was under the age of 18, and (4) whether the individual was in the UK at the time of the deprivation.

Answered on

19 January 2022

Figures for numbers of 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 which provide the number of deprivation of citizenship orders made up until the end of 2018.

Year

Number of Individuals

2010

5

2011

6

2012

5

2013

8

2014

4

2015

5

2016

14

2017

104

2018

21


Figures are provided on an annual basis and we do not break those figures down further into sub-categories.

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Home Office