Accredited official statistics

Pre-release access list for: Immigration system statistics, year ending March 2024

Updated 13 June 2024

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 Legal Migration and the Border
  • Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration
  • Preventing Abuse Minister
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Second Permanent Secretary
  • Chief Scientific Officer
  • Chief Analyst and Home Office Analysis and Insight Director
  • Director General of Strategic Operations
  • Director for Border Force Director General
  • Director General of Immigration Enforcement
  • Director of Returns and Detention Operations
  • Director General of Migration and Borders
  • Director General - Asylum and Protection
  • PB1 Director for Information Delivery & HQ Group, Small Boats Operational Command
  • Director SBOC Information, Analysis & Headquarters Group
  • Director, Migration and Citizenship
  • Deputy Director, EEA Citizens’ Rights and Hong Kong Unit
  • Senior Policy Advisor, EEA Citizens’ Rights & Hong Kong
  • FBIS Head of Strategy and Briefing
  • Lead of FBIS Strategy
  • Head of Economic Migration Policy
  • Refugee Resettlement and Integration Unit
  • Deputy Director, Resettlement Services
  • Deputy Director Resettlement Services Corporate Delivery
  • Head of Detention Services Corporate Operations and Oversight
  • FNORC Deputy Director
  • IE Illegal Migration Strategy
  • Asylum and Protection Unit
  • Asylum Children and Secondary Casework (ACSC) Secretariat
  • Head of Asylum Operations Secretariat
  • Director of Asylum and Human Rights
  • Deputy Director, Visa Status and Information Services Directorate, Customer Services Group
  • Senior Policy Manager in EEA Citizens Rights and BNOs Unit
  • Senior Policy Advisor, EEA Citizens Rights and Hong Kong Unit
  • Senior Policy Manager, EEA Citizens Rights and Hong Kong Unit
  • Head of Economic Migration Policy, PBS and Economic Migration Unit
  • Head of Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility Immigration Policy
  • FNORC Deputy Director
  • Senior Digital strategist
  • Head of Domestic Asylum Policy
  • Special Advisers (5)
  • Head of News, Communications Directorate
  • 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
  • Deputy Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister
  • Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Home Affairs
  • Deputy Head of News
  • Lead Data Scientist, Justice and Home Affairs, No.10 Data Science team
  • Special Adviser, Policy Unit
  • Communications (3)

Cabinet Office

  • Director, Domestic Affairs, EDS, Cabinet Office

Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

  • Deputy Director Analysis and Statistics Division Analyst
  • Analysis and Statistics Division Analyst

Office for National Statistics

  • Deputy Director of the Centre for International Migration
  • Assistant Deputy Director of the Centre for International Migration

Foreign Commonwealth Development Office

  • The Secretary of State for foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
  • Visas and Borders Policy Team Lead