Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications have been received from (a) Irish citizens and (b) citizens of other EU countries for British citizenship under the naturalisation rules in each of the last five years.

The available published information on the total number of applications made for British citizenship by the applicant’s country of nationality, including both naturalisation and registration, is in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, October to December 2017, Citizenship table cz_01_q_a available from

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017/list-of-tables#citizenship