HC Deb 19 March 1986 vol 94 cc194-5W
Mr. Soley

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to restore the cuts in funding for training probation officers working in prisons effected in 1985.

Mr. Mellor

Funds will be available from 1 April 1986 for the training of probation officers working in prisons.

Citizenship applications received
Registration of adults Naturalisation Registration of minors
April 1983—March 1984 21,661 13,618 9,173
April 1984—March 1985 19,824 15,640 8,205
April 1985—February 1986 19,214 14,970 8,637

Notes:

  1. (1) Registration figures include entitlement and non-entitlement registrations.
  2. (2) The figures for 1985–86 are provisional and subject to verification at a year-end stock-take.

Mr. Dubs

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff are currently in post in B4 division of his Department; how many of them work wholly on the processing of citizenship applications; (a) November 1985, (b) March 1985, (c) November 1984 and (d) June 1984, or the nearest available dates.

Mr. Waddington

The available information is:

Nationality Division Staff
Month Staff in post Staff working wholly on processing applications
March 1986 218.5 170.5
November 1985 220 169
March 1985 246 195
November 1984 263 215
June 1984 263.5 217

Applications Received and Granted
Month Registration of Adults Naturalisation Registration of Minors
Received Granted Received Granted Received Granted
1985
April 1,818 1,669 1,432 1,221 838 847
May 1,592 1,308 1,350 970 857 663
June 1,468 1,691 1,107 1,139 684 644
July 1,888 2,431 1,423 1,304 846 1,076
August 1,735 2,055 1,398 1,081 767 855
September 1,633 2,148 1,202 1,149 698 846
October 2,041 2,967 1,521 1,346 836 1,132
Movember 2,119 3,447 1,613 1,801 890 1,351
December 1,536 1,420 1,432 840 688 682
1986
January 1,694 1,865 1,340 1,168 858 787
February 1,690 2,131 1,152 1,573 675 956

Note:

(1) Registration figures include entitlement and non-entitlement registrations.

(2) The figures for applications received are provisional and subject to verification at a year-end stock-take.