HC Deb 10 January 1989 vol 144 cc488-9W
Mr. Marlow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have applied for(a) naturalisation and (b) registration as British citizens in each of the last five ye[...]rs and in each of the last 12 months; and what number of applications have been granted in each of these periods.

Mr. Renton

[holding answer 22 December 1988]: The information is not available in the form requested. The numbers of applications for citizenship received in the nationality division, and the numbers granted, are set out in the table. The figures in the table do not include applications awaiting preliminary processing in the registry, of which there were approximately 110,000 at the end of November 1988.

Applications received Applications granted1
Naturalisations Registrations Naturalisations Registrations
1984 14,971 27,731 13,615 59,907
1985 18,815 33,756 14,978 38,407
1986 19,610 37,873 13,722 31,925
1987 22,695 57,322 18,376 46,233
1988
January 2,305 11,752 1,518 5,855
February 1,899 9,327 1,115 4,855
March 2,540 14,848 1,077 4,193
April 5,351 4,911 1,101 3,811
May 2,264 3,258 1,294 3,943
June 873 3,309 1,517 3,492
July 827 4,859 1,434 2,730
August 698 9,741 1,088 1,849
September 1,816 10,802 1,018 3,046
October 1,318 13,256 1,032 4,215
November 3,211 18,836 1,195 6,662
December not yet available
1 Statistics for 1988 are provisional.

Mr. Nigel Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he expects to reply to the response to the National Association of Probation Officers to his Green Paper "Punishment Custody and the Community"; and when he expects to meet officers of the Association to discuss the Green Paper.

Mr. John Patten

The Government will make its views known on the comments of the National Association of Probation Officers on the Green Paper "Punishment, Custody and the Community" when all such comments have been received and considered. The deadline for comments is 31 January. I have no immediate plans to meet members of NAPO again to discuss the Green Paper; I have met them on two occasions during 1988. They have promised further comments before the deadline and I await these with interest.