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Pre-release access list for: Immigration system statistics, year ending December 2025

Published 26 February 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 General of Digital and Innovation
  • Director General of Immigration Enforcement
  • Director General of Visas, Passports, Citizenship and Resettlement Services
  • Director of Maritime and Small Boats Operations
  • Director of Returns
  • Director of Legal Migration and Border Directorate
  • Deputy Director of Asylum Core Casework
  • Deputy Director of Operational Delivery, Resettlement Services
  • 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 Performance Reporting Analysis Unit
  • Deputy Chief of Staff (VPCR)
  • Deputy Chief of Staff to the DG Digital and innovation
  • Head of the Economic Migration Unit
  • Head of Asylum Operations Secretariat
  • Head of Criminal & Financial Investigation
  • Head of Immigration Enforcement Criminal and Financial Investigation Command
  • Head of Corporate Operations and Oversight in Detention Services
  • Head of Central Operations, Foreign National Offenders Returns Command
  • Head of Domestic Asylum Policy
  • Head of Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility Immigration Policy
  • Head of BSC Performance
  • Border Security Commander
  • FBIS Strategy Lead
  • UASC Policy Team Leader, Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and Migrant Child Policy Unit
  • Lead Performance Analyst in Immigration Enforcement
  • Senior Policy Advisor, EEA Citizens Rights & Hong Kong
  • Policy Official – EEA Citizens Rights & Hong Kong Unit
  • Special Advisers (5)
  • Press Officer, Immigration Desk (8)

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
  • Lead Data Scientist, Justice and Home Affairs, No.10 Data Science Team
  • Immigration Policy Lead
  • Head of Home Affairs Communications
  • Special Adviser (3)
  • Private Secretary

Foreign Commonwealth Development Office

  • Head of Visas and Borders Policy Team Lead

MHCLG

  • Analysis and Statistics Division, Senior Statistical Analyst

National Crime Agency

  • Communications Manager
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