To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for (a) adult registration, (b) registration of minors and (c) naturalisation were (i) received and (ii) granted by the nationality division of his Department for each month from April 1987.
The following is the information available for applications for British citizenship made under the British Nationality Act 1981 received in case-working groups in the nationality division and granted for each month from April 1987 to March 1988.
| British Nationality Act 1981: Applications received | |||
| Date | Adult registrations | Minor registrations | Naturalisations |
| 1987 | |||
| April | 2,649 | 473 | 430 |
| May | 1,394 | 500 | 2,401 |
| June | 2,003 | 610 | 2,256 |
| July | 3,985 | 781 | 1,773 |
| August | 4,669 | 1,008 | 2,939 |
| September | 4,007 | 873 | 2,190 |
| October | 4,397 | 878 | 2,282 |
| November | 9,495 | 1,782 | 4,235 |
| December | ,890 | 863 | 1,690 |
| 1988 | |||
| January | 10,591 | 1,161 | 2,305 |
| February | 8,611 | 716 | 1,899 |
| March | 12,451 | 1,306 | 3,777 |
Note: These figures do not take account of some 190,000 cases which have been received in Lunar house but not yet received in the case-working groups.
Fees received, net of refunds to unsuccessful applicants during January to March 1988, were as follows:
1988
| £
|
| January | 1,335,057 |
| February | 1,523,734 |
| March | 13,282,369 |
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was (a) the budgeted cost and (b) the actual cost of processing nationality applications in the nationality division of his Department during 1987–88.
The processing of citizenship applications is required to be self-financing. The budgeted costs per case therefore equate to the fees charged. The outturn costs for 1987–88 are not yet available but will be published in due course.