Home Office · Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: asylum tables volume 1 (as_01 to as_02)

Asylum applications (main applicants), 1984 to 2009

2009 Final

24,487applications

Asylum applications (main applicants), 1984 to 2009 were 24,487 applications in 2009, down 5.6% (1,445) from 25,932 in 2008.

▼ 5.6% · −1,445 against 2008 (year on year)

Home Office count
2009
published 24 May 2019
Table as_01
row “Geographical region=*Total, Country of nationality=*Total”
column “Total applications”
cell value sum of 1 rows

The series is falling. Rule: down 5.6% from 2008 to 2009.

1984 to 2009

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What this measures

The number of applications for asylum made in the UK by main applicants, excluding dependants, in a calendar year, from the Home Office's old-format table as_01.

What this doesn’t measure

Dependants of applicants, people (the basis of the modern series from 2010), or applications made at UK posts abroad.

Important caveat

Applications for asylum in the UK by main applicants only, excluding dependants, from the Home Office's old-format table as_01 (last published May 2019). The Home Office notes that figures for 1989 to 1993 "were rounded to the nearest 5" and that "Data, after April 2000 for asylum applications and May 2000 for asylum decisions, have been taken from the Asylum Case Information Database. Prior to this date manual counts were taken." The modern asylum claims series counts people (main applicants and their dependants) from 2010, so the two are not the same measure and are shown separately.

When the way this was measured changed

A series can move because the thing being measured changed, or because the way of measuring it changed. Each change below is marked on the chart, and says what the figures meant on either side of it.

January 2010 · definition change

Before: Main applicants only.
After: People, meaning main applicants together with their dependants.

The modern asylum claims series (Home Office Asy_00a, from 2010) counts people, that is main applicants and their dependants; this series counts main applicants only.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher: Home Office
Publication: Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: asylum tables volume 1 (as_01 to as_02)
Release: Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: asylum tables volume 1, published 24 May 2019
Source file: asylum1-mar-2019-tables.ods
File SHA-256: 4ea89f964aad3cbd75af7afa758f415421de269b76f39a35f909dc6688206aaf
Retrieved: 2 September 2026
Sheet: as_01
Table: Table as_01
Row: Geographical region=*Total, Country of nationality=*Total
Column: Total applications
Cell value: sum of 1 rows
Geography: United Kingdom
Unit: applications
API: /api/metrics/asylum_claims_1984_2009 · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2005–2010	33,9602004	24,4872009	↓ 27.9%
Labour 2001–2005	80,3152000	33,9602004	↓ 57.7%
Labour 1997–2001	29,6421996	80,3152000	↑ 171.0%
Conservative 1992–1997	44,8401991	29,6421996	↓ 33.9%
Conservative 1987–1992	4,2661986	44,8401991	↑ 951.1%

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Release: Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: asylum tables volume 1 · publication page
Last updated: 24 May 2019
Next release expected: Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)