motion_title: New Clause 8: Nationality and Borders Bill
motion_text: New Clause 8 - Children registering as British citizens: fees—
  ‘(1) Within two months of this Act being passed, the Secretary of State must amend the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018.
  (2) The amendments referred to in subsection (1) must include—
  (a) provision to ensure that the fees charged for applications for registration as a British citizen under the British Nationality Act 1981 or the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997, where the person in respect of whom the application is made is a child at the time the application is made, do not exceed the cost to the Home Office of processing the application;
  (b) provision to ensure that no fees are charged for applications for registration as a British Citizen under the British Nationality Act 1981 or the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997 where the person in respect of whom the application is made—
  (i) is a child being looked after by a local authority at the time the application is made; or
  (ii) was looked after by a local authority when they were a child, and at the time the application is made is either—
  (A) under the age of 21; or
  (B) under the age of 25 and in full-time education.
  (3) Within six months of this Act being passed, the Secretary of State must lay before Parliament a report setting out the effect of such fees on the human rights of the children applying for registration as British citizens under the British Nationality Act 1981 and the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997.’—(Bell Ribeiro-Addy.)