British Nationality

(asked on 18th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the British Nationalities Act 1948 to allow citizenship to be passed down from the mother as well as the father.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 26th March 2021

Women have been able to pass on British nationality in the same way as men since 1983. The British Nationality Act 1981 now also provides for the registration of those who would have become British citizens had women been able to pass on their citizenship in the same way as men before 1983.

As part of the package of proposals announced earlier this week, I can confirm the Government intends to bring forward legislation to address the, anomalies in historical nationality law which deny British citizenship to people from British Overseas Territories for unfair and outdated reasons, will be fixed.

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