Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fee waiver applications for children applying for British citizenship were for children in care between June (a) 2021-2022 and (b) 2022-2023.

The Home Office monitors the number of fee waiver applications for children registering for British citizenship. However, management information in this area is currently being collated, reviewed and assured, and we are therefore not in a position to share figures at this time. We are however considering the best mechanism for updating Parliament with this information when available and will do so at the earliest appropriate opportunity.

Prior to 16 June 2022, an application to register as a British citizen as a child, required the appropriate application fee to be paid and there was no discretion to waive the citizenship application fee.