§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for British nationality are under consideration by his Department. [13931]
§ Angela EagleI regret that statistics on the number of British nationality applications under consideration are not available.
Since April this year, all new cases are initiated as soon as they arrive. The vast majority of cases awaiting a decision are already in progress, and we aim to start all remaining cases by March 2002. This means that the queue of applications waiting to be considered is getting shorter.