Citizenship Education Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Citizenship Education

Lord Dholakia Excerpts
Tuesday 14th February 2012

(12 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Dholakia Portrait Lord Dholakia
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My Lords, has the Minister undertaken any evaluation of the citizenship ceremonies that take place when people qualify for UK citizenship, which were quite rightly introduced by the previous Administration, and what has been the outcome of that evaluation?

Lord Hill of Oareford Portrait Lord Hill of Oareford
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I will need to follow up on evaluation with my noble friend. I agree with him that those ceremonies should be able to play an important part in addressing some of these questions. I am not sure what the precise evaluation is but I will ask and write to him.