Pre-release access list for: Immigration Statistics, year ending December 2021
Updated 3 March 2022
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National Statistics published at 9.30am on 24 February 2022
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
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Safe and Legal Migration
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign National Offenders and Immigration
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Afghan Resettlement
- Lords Minister
- Permanent Secretary
- Second Permanent Secretary
- Director of Border Force
- Director General of Immigration Enforcement
- Director of Compliance and Returns
- Director of Windrush, Asylum, Immigration and Citizenship Policy
- Director General of Migration and Borders
- Head of Migration Policy
- Head of Economic Migration Policy
- Parliamentary secretary, FNO Returns Command Secretariat
- Clandestine Channel Threat Commander
- Chief Analyst and Home Office Analysis and Insight Director
- Deputy Director, EEA Citizens’ Rights and Hong Kong Unit
- Policy lead, Asylum System Reform
- Special Advisers (2)
- Press Office, Immigration Desk (6)
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
- Private Secretary to Prime Minister
- Policy Lead
- Head of No.10 Policy Unit
- Deputy Chief of Staff
- Home Affairs team official
Ministry of Defence
- Chief Analyst
In addition to staff in the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics responsible for production of the statistics, the following staff also have access to pre-release figures for quality assurance purposes.
Asylum data
- Analyst, Performance Reporting and Analysis Unit, Home Office (2)
- National Removals Command, Home Office (2)
- Asylum & Protection Unit, Home Office (4)
Returns data
- Analyst, Performance Reporting and Analysis Unit, Home Office (2)
- Immigration Enforcement, Foreign National Offenders Returns Command, Home Office (3)
- Immigration Enforcement, Strategic Operations Command, Operational Performance Team, Home Office (2)
Detention data
- Analyst, Performance Reporting and Analysis Unit, Home Office (2)
- Operational lead, Detainee Escorting and Population Management Unit, Home Office
- Operational lead, Family Returns Unit, Home Office
- Risk and Assurance, Detention & Escorting Services, Home Office
Entry clearance visa data
- Analyst, Performance Reporting and Analysis Unit, Home Office (2)
- Policy lead, Migration & Borders Group, Home Office (3)
CoS, CAS data
- Operational lead, Sponsorship Analysis Team, Home Office (3)
Work, study, family visa data
- UK Visas and Immigration, European Casework, Home Office (2)
Irregular migration data
- Director, Clandestine Channel Threat Command, Home Office (1)
- Operational lead, Clandestine Channel Threat Command, Home Office (1)
- Immigration Enforcement Performance team, Home Office (2)
- Analyst, Border Force Intelligence, Home Office (6)