Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of naturalisation applications received by her Department were decided within six months in England in each of the last five years.

All naturalisation applications received by the Home Office are considered and decided by officials located in England.

The Home Office is committed to routinely publishing data as part of the Migration Transparency data quarterly release. The data can be found on Gov.uk at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data

The available data includes performance against the six-month service standard for all citizenship application decisions submitted to the Home Office.