BRITISH NATIONALITY
Sir Nicholas Soames: 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.
Mr James Brokenshire, Minister of State (Minister for Immigration): The requested information regarding renunciations is provided in the following table.
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Renunciations of British citizenship |
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Year |
Number of renunciations |
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2002 |
1,194 |
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2003 |
755 |
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2004 |
680 |
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2005 |
589 |
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2006 |
601 |
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2007 |
583 |
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2008 |
537 |
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2009 |
568 |
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2010 |
597 |
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2011 |
492 |
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2012 |
609 |
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2013 |
602 |
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2014 |
614 |
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Source: |
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Home Office: Immigration Statistics April-June 2015, cz_10 |
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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.