Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to support people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds with the cost of applications for child citizenship.

We do not currently waive application fees for children to register as British citizens, but, where a child is in care, the Local Authority concerned may pay the fee if they consider it to be in the child’s best interests. Over the course of the summer, I will be considering what further support the Home Office could provide to children applying to register for British citizenship.