Home Office · accommodation type: Initial Accommodation

Asylum seekers receiving support: Initial Accommodation

at 30 June 2026

1,613people

Asylum seekers receiving support for Initial Accommodation was 1,613 people at 30 June 2026, up 6.3% (96) on the period before.

Home Office dataset
Data_Asy_D09
all rows; Accommodation Type=Initial Accommodation
column “People”
sum of 319 rows per period
published 27 August 2026

December 2022 to June 2026

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What this measures

The number of people (main applicants and their dependants) receiving Home Office asylum support at the end of the quarter, split by accommodation type, including hotels (contingency accommodation), dispersal accommodation and subsistence-only support. This is a stock, not a flow.

People accommodated by local authorities or other schemes, or the cost of support.

Source

Dataset: Immigration system statistics: asylum seekers in receipt of support dataset
Release: Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026 · sha256 72f915e4ae27e78b…
All values: Asylum seekers receiving support by accommodation type