Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for citizenship have been made by Chagossians in the last year.

The information available on applications for British citizenship broken down by the applicants’ nationality is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Citizenship volume table cz_01_q_a at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship