Pre-release access list for: Immigration system statistics, year ending March 2026
Published 21 May 2026
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This statistical bulletin was produced by analytical professionals and production staff in Home Office Analysis and Insight Directorate.
Pre-release access was given to the following persons 24 hours in advance of release:
Home Office
- Home Secretary
- Minister of State for Immigration and Citizenship
- Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum
- Permanent Secretary
- Second Permanent Secretary
- Chief Analyst and Home Office Analysis and Insight Director
- Director General of Migration and Borders Group
- Director of Asylum and Human Rights Operations
- Director General of Digital and Innovation
- Director General of Immigration and Enforcement
- Director General, of Visas, Passports, Citizenship and Resettlement Services
- Director of Maritime and Small Boats Operations
- Deputy Director of Asylum Core Casework
- Deputy Director of Digital, Marketing and Immigration communications
- Deputy Director of Visa Status and Information Services Directorate, Customer Services Group
- Deputy Director of EEA Citizens’ Rights and Hong Kong Unit
- Deputy Director of Operational Delivery, Immigration Enforcement
- Deputy Chief of Staff (VPCR)
- Deputy Head of Asylum and Human Rights Operations Secretariat
- Head of the Economic Migration Unit
- Head of the Performance Reporting Analysis Unit
- Head of Asylum Policy Secretariat
- Head of Corporate Operations and Oversight in Detention Services
- Head of Country Policy and Information Team
- Head of Immigration Enforcement (IE) Secretariat
- Head of Central Operations, Foreign National Offenders Returns Command
- Head of Domestic Asylum Policy
- Head of BSC Performance
- Head of FNO Returns Command
- Chief Staff to Director General, Migration and Border Group
- Interim Chief staff to Director of Maritime and Small Boats Operations, Border Security Commander
- FBIS Strategy Lead
- Head of Core Protection Policy
- Immigration Enforcement Performance Team Lead
- Lead on Modern Slavery Economics and Statistics
- Modern Slavery Hub, Data and Evidence Lead
- Joint Heads of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) Policy
- Age Assessment Policy Lead
- UASC Service Management Lead
- Head of National Age Assessment Board
- Lead Performance Analyst in Immigration Enforcement
- Senior Policy Advisor, EEA Citizens Rights & Hong Kong
- Special Advisers (3)
- Press Officer, Immigration Desk (10)
In addition, Private Secretaries in the Ministers’ and Special Advisers’ Private Offices will have access to pre-release figures for handling arrangements.
Pre-release access was also given to the following persons from outside the Home Office 24 hours in advance of release:
Number 10
- Prime Minister
- Data Scientist, Justice and Home Affairs, No.10 Data Science Team
- Immigration Policy Lead
- Home Affairs Communications
- Press Officer
- Media Special Advisor
- Director of Strategic Communications
- Head of Policy Unit
- PM PO Immigration Lead
- Policy Unit Migration Lead
Foreign Commonwealth Development Office
- Head of Visas and FCDO Migration
- PS Migration Lead, Migration Department
- Migration Department, Lead Data Scientist
- Head of Migration Evidence and Impact, Migration Department
National Crime Agency
- Communications Manager