Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for naturalisation have been submitted each year since 2010; and what has been the average processing time per year.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications for naturalisation and registration of British citizenship. Annual data for citizenship applications can be found in table Cit_01 of the citizenship summary tables.

The Home Office publishes data on processing times for total citizenship applications against service standards in table VSI_02 Visas and Citizenship Migration transparency data.

The latest data relates to the year ending June 2023.