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Home Office · Immigration system statistics: safe and legal (humanitarian) routes summary tables

People offered safe and legal (humanitarian) routes

Year ending June 2026 Provisional

124,930people

People offered safe and legal (humanitarian) routes were 124,930 people in the year ending June 2026, down 12.3% (17,488) from 142,418 in the year ending June 2025.

▼ 12.3% · −17,488 against Year ending June 2025 (year on year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. Year ending June 2026
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Hum_01
  5. row “Total”
  6. column “Year ending June 2026”
  7. cell value 124930

The series is falling. Rule: down 34.1% from 2025 to Year ending June 2026.

2010 to Year ending June 2026

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 this measures

The number of people offered a safe and legal (humanitarian) route to the UK in a 12-month period: resettlement arrivals, British National (Overseas) visa grants, Ukraine scheme visa grants and refugee family reunion visa grants, whether granted in or out of the country.

What this doesn’t measure

People granted protection after claiming asylum in the UK, or people who arrived by irregular routes.

Important caveat

This counts people offered a safe and legal (humanitarian) route: resettlement arrivals, BN(O) and Ukraine scheme visa grants, and refugee family reunion visas, including grants to people already in the UK. Individual routes opened at different times (the Ukraine schemes in 2022, the BN(O) route in 2021), so the total is dominated by whichever scheme was open. Figures for 2026 Q1 onwards are 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: safe and legal (humanitarian) routes summary tables
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026
Source file
safe-legal-routes-summary-tables-jun-2026.ods
File SHA-256
087938fe4954166d39d9c46e04fb3a353fc557448e06c9929db92029261e11af
Retrieved
4 September 2026
Sheet
Hum_01
Table
Hum_01
Row
Total
Column
Year ending June 2026
Cell value
124930
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
people
API
/api/metrics/humanitarian_route_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 2024–100,1242023124,930Year ending June 2026↑ 24.8%
Conservative 2019–202411,5182018100,1242023↑ 769.3%
Conservative 2017–201911,251201611,5182018↑ 2.4%
Conservative 2015–20175,236201411,2512016↑ 114.9%

Full comparison with chart

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