HC Deb 26 October 1989 vol 158 cc613-4W
52. Mrs. Peacock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made in dealing with nationality applications at the Liverpool nationality office.

Mr. Renton

Excellent progress continues to be made. The number of applications currently outstanding is less than 40,000. As I indicated to my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Wells) on 26 July at column709, we expect to have taken decisions on all these applications by January 1990.