Pre-release access list for: Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026
Published 27 August 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 Digital and Innovation
- Director General of Immigration and Enforcement
- Director General, of Visas, Passports, Citizenship and Resettlement Services
- Director of Asylum and Human Rights Operations
- Director of Maritime and Small Boats Operations
- Director of Returns
- Director Of Visas and Citizenship
- Director Strategy and Policy Border Security Command
- Deputy Director of Asylum Core Casework
- Deputy Director, Cross-cutting operations, Visa, status and information services
- Deputy Director, Operational Delivery Command
- Deputy Director, Operational Delivery, Resettlement Services
- Deputy Director, Visa Status and Information Services Directorate, Customer Services Group
- Head of Asylum Operations Secretariat
- Head of Asylum Policy Secretariat
- Head of BSC Performance
- Head of Central Operations, Foreign National Offenders Returns Command
- Head of Core Protection Policy
- Head of Corporate Operations and Oversight Team (Detention Services)
- Head of Country Policy and Information Team
- Head of FNO Returns Command
- Head of Immigration Enforcement (IE) Secretariat
- Head of Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility Immigration Policy
- Head of the Economic Migration Unit
- Head of the Performance Reporting & Analysis Unit
- Chief Staff to Director General, Migration and Border Group
- G7 lead on Modern Slavery Economics and Statistics
- Immigration Enforcement Performance Team Lead
- Lead Performance Analyst in Immigration Enforcement
- Senior Policy Advisor, EEA Citizens’ Rights & Hong Kong
- Special Advisers (2)
- Director of Communications and Media
- Head of Communications (2)
- Deputy Head of News
- Comms – Returns and IE (2)
- Comms – Organised Immigration Crime
- Comms – Asylum
- Comms – Regular Migration (2)
- Comms – Digital
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 the Prime Minster for Home Affairs
- Data Scientist, Justice and Home Affairs, No.10 Data Science team
- Home Affairs Communications
- No 10 Media Special Advisor
- Special Advisor on Home Affairs
Foreign Commonwealth Development Office
- Head of Migration Evidence and Impact, Migration Dept
- Head of Visas and FCDO Migration
- Migration Department, Lead Data Scientist
- Statistics Advisor