§ Mr. Hoyleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions since 1979 applications for British citizenship have been taken out of turn, following a request for priority and the merits of the 6W case being judged sufficient to justify it; and on how many such occasions citizenship has been granted within 10 days of the application being made.
§ Mr. WaddingtonApplications are generally considered in the order they are received but any request for priority to be given to a particular application is carefully considered on its merits. Statistics of the number of such requests are not kept.
§ Mr. Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the minimum and what is the maximum time taken during the past 12 months to process applications for citizenship in cases of (a) entitlement and (b) discretion.
§ Mr. WaddingtonStatistics are not kept in this form. The time taken to complete the consideration of an application for citizenship varies considerably according to the nature of the case.
§ Mr. Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many applications for citizenship from people residing in the city of Leicester are at present being processed; and what is the longest time that any of these have so far taken to complete processing in cases of (a) entitlement and (b) discretion, respectively;
(2) what is the maximum and what is the mininimum time taken to process applications from residents in the city of Leicester during the past 12 months, in cases of (a) entitlement and (b) discretion, respectively.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe information requested is not available. No record of applicants according to place of residence is kept.