Home Department written question – answered at on 1 March 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many British citizens have had their citizenship revoked as a result of being convicted of (a) treason and (b) acts of terrorism in the last 10 years.
holding answer
In the last 10 years, 15 people have been deprived of their British citizenship on the grounds that it was ‘conducive to the public good’ to do so (the relevant legal test for deprivation action).
The British Nationality Act 1981 was amended in 2006 to the legal test set out above, and statements were made to Parliament at the time explaining that the power would be available for use in cases including those involving national security and extremism.
For reasons of confidentiality, the Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases and so it is not appropriate to indicate how many individuals have been deprived for the specific reasons set out in the question.
This information has been provided from local management information and is not a National Statistic. As such it should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.
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