Nicholas Soames – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-11-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had British citizenship revoked in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.

James Brokenshire

Section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 allows the Secretary of State to make an order to deprive a person of their British citizenship where it is conducive to the public good to do so, or where a naturalised British citizen has used fraud, false representation or concealment of material fact to obtain British citizenship.

Between 1997 and 2006 no person was deprived of British citizenship by the Secretary of State. The number of people who have been deprived of citizenship under section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 since 2006 is set out in the table below:

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.