Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of naturalisation applications were completed within six months in each of the last 12 months.

The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on naturalisation applications made and completed every quarter on the Gov.uk website. This includes performance against the six-month service standard for completing applications. The most recent data set was published on 23 February 2023 and can be found here:

Visas and citizenship data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk),