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Home Office · asylum case outcome group: Grant of Protection

Initial decisions on asylum claims from small boat arrivals: Grant of Protection

4 periods to 2025 Q4

18,435 decisions

Initial decisions on asylum claims from small boat arrivals for Grant of Protection totalled 18,435 decisions in the 4 periods to 2025 Q4, up 36.7% (4,952) on the 4 periods before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. Data_IER_D03
  3. all rows; Asylum Case Outcome Group=Grant of Protection
  4. column “Outcomes”
  5. sum of 159 rows per period
  6. published 27 August 2026

2018 Q3 to 2025 Q4

Initial decisions on asylum claims from small boat arrivals by outcome: 2018 Q3 to 2025 Q4ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour02k4k6k20182020202220242018 Q3: 5 decisions · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 140 decisions · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 93 decisions · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 145 decisions · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 345 decisions · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 228 decisions · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 243 decisions · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 781 decisions · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 2,220 decisions · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 916 decisions · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 792 decisions · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 2,821 decisions · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 6,510 decisions · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 5,694 decisions · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 3,093 decisions · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 3,203 decisions · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 5,468 decisions · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 5,248 decisions · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 1,503 decisions · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 2,575 decisions · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 4,921 decisions · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 1,542 decisions · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 1,900 decisions · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 2,855 decisions · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 3,876 decisions · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 4,852 decisions · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 3,293 decisions · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 6,262 decisions · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 5,943 decisions · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 2,937 decisions · published 27 August 2026
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PeriodInitial decisions on asylum claims from small boat arrivals by outcome
2018 Q35 decisions
2018 Q4140 decisions
2019 Q193 decisions
2019 Q2145 decisions
2019 Q3345 decisions
2019 Q4228 decisions
2020 Q1243 decisions
2020 Q2781 decisions
2020 Q32,220 decisions
2020 Q4916 decisions
2021 Q1792 decisions
2021 Q22,821 decisions
2021 Q36,510 decisions
2021 Q45,694 decisions
2022 Q13,093 decisions
2022 Q23,203 decisions
2022 Q35,468 decisions
2022 Q45,248 decisions
2023 Q11,503 decisions
2023 Q22,575 decisions
2023 Q34,921 decisions
2023 Q41,542 decisions
2024 Q11,900 decisions
2024 Q22,855 decisions
2024 Q33,876 decisions
2024 Q44,852 decisions
2025 Q13,293 decisions
2025 Q26,262 decisions
2025 Q35,943 decisions
2025 Q42,937 decisions

What this measures

The outcomes to date of asylum claims made by people who arrived by small boat, counted in the quarter the person arrived and split by outcome group — grant of protection, grant of other leave, refused, withdrawn, administrative outcome, or awaiting an initial decision.

Final outcomes after appeal. Outcomes are restated at every release as claims resolve, so recent quarters show many claims still awaiting a decision and their split will change.

Source

Dataset
Immigration system statistics: small boat arrivals, asylum claims and NRM referrals datasets
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026 · sha256 72071ed0ce3777a2…
All values
Initial decisions on asylum claims from small boat arrivals by asylum case outcome group