Home Office · Immigration system statistics: asylum summary tables

Asylum claims

Year ending June 2026 Provisional

85,891people

Asylum claims were 85,891 people in the year ending June 2026, down 20.9% (22,694) from 108,585 in the year ending June 2025.

▼ 20.9% · −22,694 against Year ending June 2025 (year on year)

Home Office count
Year ending June 2026
published 27 August 2026
Asy_00a
row “People claiming asylum”
column “Year ending June 2026”
cell value 85891

The latest year is the largest fall in the published series: down 16,020 from 2025 to Year ending June 2026. Rule: largest year-on-year decrease across the 17 year-on-year changes the series supports.

2010 to Year ending June 2026

Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestOne point a year is drawn; the source publishes overlapping year-ending figures, and every one is in the history table and CSVShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value

Longer history: 1984 to Year ending June 2026

Joins Asylum applications (main applicants), 1984 to 2009 to the current series. The line is broken where the publisher changed method; the two sides are not directly comparable.

Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestOne point a year is drawn; the source publishes overlapping year-ending figures, and every one is in the history table and CSVDashed line: change in coverage or methodShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value

Asylum applications (main applicants), 1984 to 2009

Breakdowns

What this measures

The number of people (main applicants and their dependants) who claimed asylum in the UK in a 12-month period.

People often confuse this with

Asylum application ≠ Grant of asylumAn application is a claim lodged; a grant is a decision to give protection or other leave. Decisions are made on claims lodged months or years earlier, so applications and grants in the same year describe different people.

What this doesn’t measure

The number of asylum cases (main applicants only), people who arrived without claiming asylum, or the outcome of the claims.

Important caveat

Asylum figures count people (main applicants and their dependants) rather than cases. Data for 2026 Q1 onwards is provisional and will be revised in a future publication, so the latest year-ending figure can change. Initial decisions in a period relate to claims made in earlier periods, so decisions and claims for the same period should not be compared directly.

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 system statistics: asylum summary tables
Release: Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026
Source file: asylum-summary-jun-2026-tables.ods
File SHA-256: f935782ab90190deb04a1a86f7b6ba7515f32e238c14b96c55993f4793096d14
Retrieved: 4 September 2026
Sheet: Asy_00a
Table: Asy_00a
Row: People claiming asylum
Column: Year ending June 2026
Cell value: 85891
Geography: United Kingdom
Unit: people
API: /api/metrics/asylum_claims · /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 2024–	87,4272023	85,891Year ending June 2026	↓ 1.8%
Conservative 2019–2024	38,4832018	87,4272023	↑ 127.2%
Conservative 2017–2019	39,3572016	38,4832018	↓ 2.2%
Conservative 2015–2017	32,3442014	39,3572016	↑ 21.7%

Full comparison with chart

Release: Year ending June 2026 · publication page
Last updated: 27 August 2026
Next scheduled release: 26 November 2026 (official date)