Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for naturalisation as a British citizen were (a) lodged, (b) granted and (c) refused in each year since 2010.
The latest available Home Office immigration statistics of British citizenship applications, grants and refusals are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, July to September 2016’, available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics . Quarterly statistics covering the period in question are held here. Data for October to December 2016 will be published on 23 February 2017.