HC Deb 07 March 1968 vol 760 cc128-9W
Mr. J. E. B. Hill

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his estimate of the numbers of former aliens and of the numbers of former British-protected persons who hold certificates of naturalisation received elsewhere than in the United Kingdom; and how many of those are estimated to be currently resident in the United Kingdom, and how many in Kenya.

Mr. Ennals

The numbers of certificates of naturalisation granted in Colonies or British protectorates since 1st January, 1915, are given below. It is not known how many are alive, still citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, and resident in the United Kingdom or in Kenya.

1915–1948 inclusive
Total of aliens and British protected persons. (Separate figures are not available. In addition a number of certificates of naturalisation were granted which at the time had only local effect but which by the British Nationality Act 1948 have conferred full citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies. Figures are not available) 4,650
1949–1967 inclusive
Aliens 29,970
British protected persons 4,304
38,924
(Figures for 1914 and earlier years are no available.)

Mr. J. E. B. Hill

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons who were aliens and how many who were British-protected persons have been granted certificates of naturalisation in each year since the commencement of the British Nationality Act, 1948, specifying separately the certificates granted elsewhere than in the United Kingdom and the certificates granted in Kenya.

Mr. Ennals

From the commencement of the British Nationality Act, 1948, on 1st January, 1949, to the end of 1967

(1) (2) (3)
In the United Kingdom Elsewhere than in the United Kingdom In Kenya Colony and Protectorate (included in (2))
(a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b)
Aliens British Protected Persons Aliens British Protected Persons Aliens British Protected Persons
1949 9,593 418 62
1950 7,033 534 1 61 1
1951 4,332 912 16 42 3
1952 3,516 13 907 20 29 1
1953 4,118 4 1,598 37 780
1954 5,378 3 923 1,265 182 1,233
1955 4,548 14 1,747 1,963 347 1,903
1956 3,994 3 1,664 162 40 52
1957 4,358 4,766 77 46 1
1958 3,314 1 5,260 53 38 6
1959 4,792 2 936 22 25 2
1960 6,583 4 1,302 96 33 4
1961 5,093 4 1,280 74 93 9
1962 4,222 6 1,582 238 77 8
1963 4,224 4 1,880 64 38 20
1964 4,294 15 1,908 169
1965 4,426 11 748 46
1966 2,853 13 721
1967 4,955 45 884 1
Totals 91,626 142 29,970 4,304 1,893 3,243