Briefings / UK Asylum, Immigration
UK Asylum, Immigration Briefing
Asylum support, the benefits bill, fraud, crime figures, and how news coverage compares. Every number comes from a published source. If a figure is not published, the briefing says so.
Published figures at a glance
These charts use the same official figures as the chat. They are not forecasts.
Asylum support against the benefits bill and fraud
£ billion, nominal. Asylum support is Home Office spending and sits outside the £314.9bn social security total. Fraud is the DWP estimate for 2024-25 (£6.5bn) and 2025-26 (£6.8bn).
Non-EU+ long-term immigration by reason
Thousands of people, year ending December 2025, ONS provisional. Asylum here is the long-term immigration count, not the Home Office claim count.
Muslim share of usual residents, by census
Census religion questions differ across nations, and Scotland’s census was a year later. ONS says not to combine these into one UK percentage.
Net migration, selected years
Long-term net migration, thousands. Decade averages from the Migration Advisory Committee. Peak and latest from ONS provisional estimates (revised series).
Answers use official UK statistics held by Subtextly. This is not legal, immigration, or benefits advice.