Written Question·Home Office·UIN 21756

Offences against Children

Tabled: 3 January 2025
Answered: 17 January 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing UK citizenship from dual nationals prosecuted for membership of a rape gang.

Answer

Jess Phillips
The power to deprive a person of their British citizenship is already provided for in Section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 where it is conducive to the public good. Deprivation of citizenship is used against the most dangerous people, such as te...
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