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Home Office · Immigration system statistics: asylum summary tables

Asylum seekers receiving support

Year ending June 2026 Provisional

93,293people

Asylum seekers receiving support were 93,293 people at 30 June 2026, down 12.0% (12,782) from 106,075 at 30 June 2025.

▼ 12.0% · −12,782 against Year ending June 2025 (year on year)

  1. Home Office snapshot
  2. Year ending June 2026
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Asy_00a
  5. row “Asylum seekers in receipt of support”
  6. column “Year ending June 2026”
  7. cell value 93293

The latest year is the largest fall in the published series: down 13,710 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

Asylum seekers receiving support: 2010 to Year ending June 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour050k100k20102015202020252010: 22,689 people · published 27 August 20262011: 21,856 people · published 27 August 20262012: 21,249 people · published 27 August 20262013: 29,487 people · published 27 August 20262014: 36,223 people · published 27 August 20262015: 40,169 people · published 27 August 20262016: 45,152 people · published 27 August 20262017: 46,652 people · published 27 August 20262018: 50,426 people · published 27 August 20262019: 50,091 people · published 27 August 20262020: 64,041 people · published 27 August 20262021: 84,457 people · published 27 August 20262022: 110,171 people · published 27 August 20262023: 111,132 people · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2025: 106,075 people · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2026: 93,293 people · published 27 August 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

Breakdowns

What this measures

The number of asylum seekers (main applicants and their dependants) in receipt of Home Office asylum support at the end of the period, including accommodation and subsistence-only support.

What this doesn’t measure

People granted protection who have moved on to mainstream benefits, or the cost of asylum support.

Important caveat

This is a snapshot count at the end of the period (30 June for a year ending June, 31 December for a calendar year), not a total over the period. Calendar-year and year-ending values in the series are therefore snapshots six months apart. Counts include main applicants and dependants. Hotel accommodation figures are not available before 2022. Data for 2026 Q1 onwards is provisional and will be revised.

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
Asylum seekers in receipt of support
Column
Year ending June 2026
Cell value
93293
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
people
API
/api/metrics/asylum_support_total · /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 2024–111,132202393,293Year ending June 2026↓ 16.1%
Conservative 2019–202450,4262018111,1322023↑ 120.4%
Conservative 2017–201945,152201650,4262018↑ 11.7%
Conservative 2015–201736,223201445,1522016↑ 24.7%

Full comparison with chart

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