§ Captain ERSKINE-BOLSTasked the Home Secretary if he will state the present practice with regard to the re-naturalisation of those Englishmen who go to foreign countries and there become naturalised, but who subsequently wish to return and settle in this country; and the number of such applications for re-naturalisation he has had within the last 12 months?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe law makes no distinction between such persons and other aliens for the purposes of naturalisation. They must fulfil the statutory requirements, including those as to residence within His Majesty's Dominions. It is the practice to grant a certificate of naturalisation to any applicant who satisfies the Home Secretary that he fulfils those requirements and is a desirable candidate. Sixty-one certificates of naturalisation were granted last year to men who had formerly been British subjects. No separate statistics are kept of applications from such men.