HC Deb 12 November 1996 vol 285 c127W
Mr. Gunnell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what right to British citizenship a child of British parents, adopted in babyhood by a couple of other nationality and brought up by them retains; and if he will make a statement. [3558]

Mr. Kirkhope

A child who is a British citizen at birth retains that status irrespective of the nationality of his or her adoptive parents, unless, when of full age, he or she voluntarily renounces it.