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Home Office · Immigration system statistics: asylum summary tables

Asylum grants at initial decision

Year ending June 2026 Provisional

42,394people

Asylum grants at initial decision were 42,394 people in the year ending June 2026, down 20.7% (11,086) from 53,480 in the year ending June 2025.

▼ 20.7% · −11,086 against Year ending June 2025 (year on year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. Year ending June 2026
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Asy_00a
  5. row “Grants of protection or other leave”
  6. column “Year ending June 2026”
  7. cell value 42394

The series is falling. Rule: down 23.1% from 2025 to Year ending June 2026.

2010 to Year ending June 2026

Asylum grants at initial decision: 2010 to Year ending June 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour020k40k60k20102015202020252010: 6,444 people · published 27 August 20262011: 7,184 people · published 27 August 20262012: 7,797 people · published 27 August 20262013: 8,638 people · published 27 August 20262014: 10,101 people · published 27 August 20262015: 13,945 people · published 27 August 20262016: 9,944 people · published 27 August 20262017: 8,564 people · published 27 August 20262018: 10,097 people · published 27 August 20262019: 15,080 people · published 27 August 20262020: 8,973 people · published 27 August 20262021: 12,953 people · published 27 August 20262022: 17,274 people · published 27 August 20262023: 61,478 people · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2025: 53,480 people · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2026: 42,394 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 people (main applicants and their dependants) granted refugee status, humanitarian protection or another form of leave at initial decision 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

Grants made after a successful appeal, or people offered safe and legal routes such as resettlement.

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.

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
Grants of protection or other leave
Column
Year ending June 2026
Cell value
42394
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
people
API
/api/metrics/asylum_grants · /series · /vintages

Related metrics

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 2024–61,478202342,394Year ending June 2026↓ 31.0%
Conservative 2019–202410,097201861,4782023↑ 508.9%
Conservative 2017–20199,944201610,0972018↑ 1.5%
Conservative 2015–201710,10120149,9442016↓ 1.6%

Full comparison with chart

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