<P> 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 . In 2003 , the Group produced a report , `` The New and the Old , '' with recommendations for the design and administration of the test . There was dissent among the committee members on certain issues , 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . In 2003 , the Group produced a report , `` The New and the Old , '' with recommendations for the design and administration of the test . There was dissent among the committee members on certain issues , 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 . </P>
when was the life in the uk test introduced
when was the life in the uk test introduced
2002
2002