Asylum seekers receiving support by accommodation, UK
Provisional: the Home Office treats its asylum support figures from 2018 on as provisional
People in the UK receiving asylum support by the accommodation they are in – hotels, other contingency, dispersal and initial accommodation, other accommodation or subsistence only – and in all, at each quarter's end the Home Office's table gives, from its immigration system statistics.
People receiving asylum support
93,293
30 Jun 2026 · 16,021 in hotels
Verified against source, 4 November 2026, 01:59 UTC- Hotels (contingency accommodation)
- Other contingency accommodation
- Dispersal accommodation
- Initial accommodation
- Other accommodation
- Subsistence only
- All in receipt of support
Source: Home Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
8 periods, newest first
| Period | Hotels (contingency accommodation) | Other contingency accommodation | Dispersal accommodation | Initial accommodation | Other accommodation | Subsistence only | All in receipt of support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jun 2026 | 16,021 | 1,255 | 69,038 | 1,613 | 1,162 | 4,204 | 93,293 |
| 31 Mar 2026 | 20,885 | 1,543 | 68,719 | 1,517 | 989 | 3,866 | 97,519 |
| 31 Dec 2025 | 30,657 | 2,010 | 68,538 | 1,572 | 649 | 3,577 | 107,003 |
| 30 Sep 2025 | 36,273 | 2,651 | 66,232 | 1,851 | 1,078 | 3,566 | 111,651 |
| 30 Jun 2025 | 32,041 | 2,273 | 66,234 | 1,665 | 653 | 3,209 | 106,075 |
| 31 Mar 2025 | 32,326 | 2,338 | 66,683 | 1,749 | 588 | 3,087 | 106,771 |
| 31 Dec 2024 | 38,054 | 3,024 | 65,707 | 1,753 | 527 | 3,122 | 112,187 |
| 30 Sep 2024 | 35,628 | 2,751 | 65,312 | 1,705 | 785 | 2,843 | 109,024 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Home Office
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 4 November 2026, 01:55 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tablesSHA-256 227db69d3415bc20cd0891768f1d87e98187ee4669691d23f8ac9ddb5360d496 · 126,811 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a85c2f1c9205b515d421eec/asylum-seekers-receipt-support-datasets-jun-2026.xlsxSHA-256 79aadb613465d66a2762f57d806a18e6825a1579f7815bdb9ebe57eba198d666 · 3,452,251 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 4 November 2026, 01:59 UTC Run at 4 November 2026, 01:59 UTC; 56 of 56 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Home Office; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-04T01:55:44Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 56 of 56 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 56 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 56 of 56 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-06-30 ended 127 days before retrieval (limit 200), from Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support detailed datasets, year ending June 2026 |
| Pass | The summary table Asy_09b agrees | 4 of 4 figures match the total in Asy_09b (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a85c315b0504df9f2c89800/asylum-summary-jun-2026-tables.ods) |
| Pass | The release's text agrees | 1 of 1 figures the release's text https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-june-2026/how-many-people-are-in-the-uk-asylum-system states match, each rounded half up as it rounds them |
| Pass | The release's total agrees | 1 of 1 figures the release's text https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-june-2026/how-many-people-are-in-the-uk-asylum-system states match, each rounded half up as it rounds them; the proof counts these figures under the route that gives them all |
| Pass | The record-level data adds up to the pivot | 56 of 56 cases of Asy_D09's figures equal Data_Asy_D09's people summed by date and accommodation |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- People receiving support under section 95 (asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute), section 4 (refused asylum seekers who cannot yet leave the UK) and section 98 (temporary support while a claim for section 95 support is assessed), as the pivot table Asy_D09 gives them. Subsistence only is financial support for people who have accommodation of their own.
- The Home Office's table gives the eight latest quarter-ends; earlier ones are in its record-level data by nationality and region, which the hub would have to add up, so they are not shown. Hotel use peaked at 56,018 people at the end of September 2023, as the release states.