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Home Office · Immigration system statistics: asylum claims and initial decisions datasets

Asylum refusals by nationality

2026 Q2 Provisional

12,970people

Asylum refusals by nationality were 12,970 people in 2026 Q2, down 33.5% (6,548) from 19,518 in 2025 Q2.

▼ 33.5% · −6,548 against 2025 Q2 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. 2026 Q2
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Asy_D02
  5. row “Case outcome group=Refused”
  6. column “Decisions”
  7. cell value sum of 1125 rows

The series is falling. Rule: down 33.5% from 2025 Q2 to 2026 Q2.

2001 Q1 to 2026 Q2

Asylum refusals by nationality: 2001 Q1 to 2026 Q2LabourLabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour010k20k30k201020202001 Q1: 36,481 people · published 27 August 20262001 Q2: 20,902 people · published 27 August 20262001 Q3: 17,021 people · published 27 August 20262001 Q4: 14,904 people · published 27 August 20262002 Q1: 18,696 people · published 27 August 20262002 Q2: 15,826 people · published 27 August 20262002 Q3: 18,169 people · published 27 August 20262002 Q4: 17,301 people · published 27 August 20262003 Q1: 19,139 people · published 27 August 20262003 Q2: 15,659 people · published 27 August 20262003 Q3: 15,858 people · published 27 August 20262003 Q4: 16,529 people · published 27 August 20262004 Q1: 15,644 people · published 27 August 20262004 Q2: 12,364 people · published 27 August 20262004 Q3: 12,135 people · published 27 August 20262004 Q4: 8,896 people · published 27 August 20262005 Q1: 8,254 people · published 27 August 20262005 Q2: 7,322 people · published 27 August 20262005 Q3: 6,707 people · published 27 August 20262005 Q4: 5,499 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q1: 6,046 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q2: 4,862 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q3: 4,624 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q4: 4,903 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q1: 5,687 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q2: 5,665 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q3: 4,548 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q4: 3,952 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q1: 3,648 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q2: 4,321 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q3: 4,775 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q4: 3,963 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q1: 3,689 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q2: 5,136 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q3: 7,427 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q4: 6,316 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q1: 5,355 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q2: 5,195 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q3: 4,861 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q4: 4,597 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q1: 4,542 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q2: 3,861 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q3: 3,673 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q4: 3,534 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q1: 3,971 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q2: 3,397 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q3: 3,223 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q4: 3,471 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q1: 3,995 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q2: 4,042 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q3: 3,436 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q4: 2,445 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q1: 2,258 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q2: 2,838 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q3: 5,145 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q4: 5,541 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q1: 8,440 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q2: 4,830 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q3: 5,392 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q4: 5,540 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q1: 5,384 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q2: 5,048 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q3: 5,520 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q4: 5,115 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q1: 5,194 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q2: 4,260 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q3: 4,590 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q4: 5,242 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q1: 6,005 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 4,773 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 4,285 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 3,809 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 3,832 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 3,258 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 3,294 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 3,111 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 2,930 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 1,897 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 2,358 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 2,319 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 1,573 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 1,318 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 999 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 1,023 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 1,104 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 1,156 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 1,464 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 1,792 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 1,956 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 3,119 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 5,738 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 19,265 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 13,845 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 10,687 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 5,665 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 15,691 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 18,853 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 19,518 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 21,626 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 20,626 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 18,256 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 12,970 people · published 27 August 2026
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What this measures

The number of people (main applicants and their dependants) refused asylum at initial decision in each quarter, split by nationality.

What this doesn’t measure

Claims withdrawn or closed administratively, refusals overturned on appeal, or people who left the UK.

Important caveat

Outcome groups are summed from the Home Office detailed decisions dataset. The summary "initial decisions" figure counts grants and refusals only; this dataset also records withdrawn claims and administrative outcomes, so the total of all outcome groups is larger than the published initial decisions figure. A grant of protection is refugee permission or humanitarian protection; other leave covers discretionary, UASC and similar grants. Decisions in a quarter relate to claims made earlier. Data for 2026 Q1 onwards is provisional.

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 claims and initial decisions datasets
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026
Source file
asylum-claims-datasets-jun-2026.xlsx
File SHA-256
10788dae8042fdb4f49ce4fc1447335a5cc868df48349969d66185bfda12e02f
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
Data_Asy_D02
Table
Asy_D02
Row
Case outcome group=Refused
Column
Decisions
Cell value
sum of 1125 rows
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
people
API
/api/metrics/asylum_refusals_by_nationality · /series · /vintages

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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 2024–10,6872024 Q212,9702026 Q2↑ 21.4%
Conservative 2019–20243,2942019 Q310,6872024 Q2↑ 224.4%
Conservative 2017–20195,1942017 Q13,2942019 Q3↓ 36.6%
Conservative 2015–20178,4402015 Q15,1942017 Q1↓ 38.5%
Coalition 2010–20155,3552010 Q18,4402015 Q1↑ 57.6%
Labour 2005–20108,2542005 Q15,3552010 Q1↓ 35.1%
Labour 2001–200536,4812001 Q18,2542005 Q1↓ 77.4%

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