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Asylum-related returns

Year ending June 2026 Provisional

12,568returns

Asylum-related returns were 12,568 returns in the year ending June 2026, up 13.9% (1,536) from 11,032 in the year ending June 2025.

▲ 13.9% · +1,536 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 “Asylum-related returns”
  6. column “Year ending June 2026”
  7. cell value 12568

Year ending June 2026 is the highest figure in the published series: 12,568. Rule: highest of the 18 periods published here (2010 to Year ending June 2026).

2010 to Year ending June 2026

Asylum-related returns: 2010 to Year ending June 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour05k10k20102015202020252010: 10,563 returns · published 27 August 20262011: 10,374 returns · published 27 August 20262012: 9,026 returns · published 27 August 20262013: 8,928 returns · published 27 August 20262014: 6,865 returns · published 27 August 20262015: 5,696 returns · published 27 August 20262016: 5,116 returns · published 27 August 20262017: 5,149 returns · published 27 August 20262018: 3,971 returns · published 27 August 20262019: 3,167 returns · published 27 August 20262020: 1,565 returns · published 27 August 20262021: 1,566 returns · published 27 August 20262022: 2,825 returns · published 27 August 20262023: 6,513 returns · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2025: 11,032 returns · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2026: 12,568 returns · published 27 August 2026
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What this measures

The number of enforced and voluntary returns from the UK in a 12-month period of people who had claimed asylum at some point, including their dependants.

What this doesn’t measure

Returns of people who never claimed asylum, or people refused entry at port.

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
Asylum-related returns
Column
Year ending June 2026
Cell value
12568
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
returns
API
/api/metrics/asylum_related_returns · /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 2024–6,513202312,568Year ending June 2026↑ 93.0%
Conservative 2019–20243,97120186,5132023↑ 64.0%
Conservative 2017–20195,11620163,9712018↓ 22.4%
Conservative 2015–20176,86520145,1162016↓ 25.5%

Full comparison with chart

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