People offered safe and legal (humanitarian) routes: record highs and lows

The extremes of people offered safe and legal (humanitarian) routes as published by Home Office, across the 18 periods held here (2010 to Year ending June 2026). Each record is a published figure, not a computed one, and the scope is this series — not “ever”.

Highest published

299,2852022

Lowest published

4,7212012

The full series

People offered safe and legal (humanitarian) routes: 2010 to Year ending June 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0100k200k20102015202020252010: 5,603 people · published 27 August 20262011: 4,765 people · published 27 August 20262012: 4,721 people · published 27 August 20262013: 5,088 people · published 27 August 20262014: 5,236 people · published 27 August 20262015: 6,714 people · published 27 August 20262016: 11,251 people · published 27 August 20262017: 11,411 people · published 27 August 20262018: 11,518 people · published 27 August 20262019: 13,068 people · published 27 August 20262020: 5,620 people · published 27 August 20262021: 120,095 people · published 27 August 20262022: 299,285 people · published 27 August 20262023: 100,124 people · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2025: 142,418 people · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2026: 124,930 people · published 27 August 2026

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What a record here is, and is not

A record is the extreme of the periods this site holds for the current series, at each period’s newest published release. Earlier series measured under different methods are not compared against it. Money is in cash terms: a record set years ago stands against the money of its own year.