Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether BN(O) citizens who have arrived from Hong Kong are required to become British citizens before they can register to vote in a UK general election.
Answered by Lord Greenhalgh
British Nationals Overseas (BN(O)s) who have arrived from Hong Kong are not required to become British Citizens in order to register to vote in UK general elections.
Although BN(O)s are not classed as British citizens, the British Nationality Act 1981 determines that they have the status of Commonwealth citizens. This means that Hong Kong BN(O)s, with leave to enter or remain in the UK, are entitled to register to vote as an elector in UK parliamentary elections, providing they fulfil the age and residence requirements for such registration and are not subject to any other legal incapacity.
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the proportion of future household growth that will be driven by the existing non-UK born population; and to what extent that proportion was taken into account in preparing the 2014-based household projections in England, 2014 to 2039.
Answered by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
The 2014-based household projections for England took account of net migration and growth of the existing population as shown in the ONS population projections for the same period. The population and household projections are not disaggregated by country of birth.
Responsibility for Household Projections transferred from this Department to the Office for National Statistics in January 2017.
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will publish variant projections to accompany the 2012-based household projections for England published on 27 February.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Variant projections will be considered as part of the further analysis of household formation mentioned in the Household Projections Statistical Release.
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the projected increase in households in the 2012-based household projections for England are as a result of (1) population growth, and (2) future net migration.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Variant projections will be considered as part of the further analysis of household formation mentioned in the Household Projections Statistical Release.