§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state 1229 the number of aliens naturalised in each of the years 1890 to (and inclusive of) 1904.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The number of persons whose oaths of allegiance, taken on the grant of Certificates of Naturalisation in the United Kingdom, have been registered from 1894 to 1904, are as follows:—
The figures for previous years were not kept in a similar form, and are not readily available for purposes of comparison. They included the few cases in which persons have been naturalised by special Act of Parliament, but did not include
Year. No. of Persons naturalised. 1894 910 1895 1896 736 1897 606 1898 634 1899 608 1900 581 1901 542 1902 788 1903 890 1904 974 1230 those women and children who have become British subjects through the naturalisation of their husbands or parents.
Year Net Contributions as Shown in the Financial Relations Returns. England. Scotland. Ireland. £ £ £ 1895–6 60,140,000 7,292,000 2,096,000 1899–1900 69,540,500 8,660,000 1,684,500 1903–4 82,808,500 10,149,000 2,200,500