Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the average time taken to process a naturalisation application in each of the last five years.

The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website. We do not publish data on average processing times for naturalisation applications.

The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:

Visas and citizenship data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).