Written Question·Home Office·UIN 34766

British Nationality

Tabled: 3 March 2025
Answered: 11 March 2025

Question

John McDonnell

LabourHayes and Harlington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential psychological impact of the updated good character guidance on (a) people in the asylum system and (b) people with leave to remain.

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The assessment of good character has been part of the citizenship process since the British Nationality Act 1981, but each individual continues to have their application considered on a case by case basis, taking these individual circumstances into accoun...

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