Nicholas Soames
Conservative, Mid Sussex
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people renounced British citizenship in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
Nicholas Soames
Conservative, Mid Sussex
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people subsequently resumed British citizenship after renouncing it in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
James Brokenshire
Minister of State (Home Office) (Security and Immigration)
The requested information regarding renunciations is provided in the following table.
Renunciations of British citizenship | ||||
Year | Number of renunciations | |||
2002 | 1,194 | |||
2003 | 755 | |||
2004 | 680 | |||
2005 | 589 | |||
2006 | 601 | |||
2007 | 583 | |||
2008 | 537 | |||
2009 | 568 | |||
2010 | 597 | |||
2011 | 492 | |||
2012 | 609 | |||
2013 | 602 | |||
2014 | 614 | |||
Source: | ||||
Home Office: Immigration Statistics April-June 2015, cz_10 | ||||
The latest Home Office immigration statistics on grant of renunciations of British citizenship are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, April-June 2015’ table cz_10 for 2002 to 2014, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics .
Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 21 May 2016.
Information regarding people resuming British citizenship is not available.
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