when was the life in the uk test introduced
Life in the United Kingdom test Plans to introduce such a test were announced in September 2002 by the then United Kingdom Home Secretary David Blunkett. Blunkett appointed a "Life in the United Kingdom Advisory Group," chaired by Sir Bernard Crick, to formulate the test content.[8] In 2003, the Group produced a report, "The New and the Old," with recommendations for the design and administration of the test.[9] There was dissent among the committee members on certain issues,[10] and many of the recommendations were not adopted by the Government. Plans to require foreign-born religious ministers to take the test earlier than other immigrants were later abandoned by the then Immigration Minister, Tony McNulty.[11]