Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the operation of section 3(5) of the British Nationality Act 1981.

The Home Office keeps all aspects of the immigration system under review. However, British nationality law is governed by the British Nationality Act 1981, which came into force on 1 January 1983. There is no power in law to grant British citizenship outside of the statutory provisions of that Act 1981.