HC Deb 06 December 1976 vol 922 cc9-10W
Mr. Corrie

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how much land was

sample check suggests that, of 53,000 people who have renounced their citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies since 1960, about 16 per cent., or between 8,000 and 9,000, were born in the United Kingdom. The circumstances in which citizenship may be renounced are set out in Section 19 of the British Nationality Act 1948, as amended by Section 2 of the British Nationality Act 1964.