HC Deb 30 November 1976 vol 921 c74W
Mr. Hugh Jenkins

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list his powers to deprive British-born subjects of their nationality; and under what circumstances they may be exercised.

Dr. Summerskill

A citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies born in the United Kingdom could be deprived of his citizenship only if he had first lost or renounced his citizenship and subsequently regained it by naturalisation or registration. He could then be deprived of it in the circumstances set out in Section 20 of the British Nationality Act 1948, as amended by Section 4 of the British Nationality (No.2) Act 1964.