Accredited official statistics

Pre-release access list for: Immigration system statistics, year ending December 2023

Published 29 February 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 General of Immigration Enforcement
  • Director of Returns and Detention Operations
  • Director General of Migration and Borders
  • Director General - Asylum and Protection
  • 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 (1)
  • Deputy Director, Resettlement Services
  • Deputy Director Resettlement Services Corporate Delivery
  • Head of Detention Services Corporate Operations and Oversight
  • FNORC Deputy Director
  • Asylum and Protection Unit (1)
  • Asylum Children and Secondary Casework (ACSC) Secretariat (1)
  • Head of Asylum Operations Secretariat
  • 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
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Home Affairs
  • Deputy Head of News
  • Lead Data Scientist, Justice and Home Affairs, No.10 Data Science team
  • Director, Deputy Head, No.10 Delivery Unit
  • Special Adviser, Policy Unit

Cabinet Office

  • Director, Domestic Affairs, EDS, Cabinet Office
  • Deputy Director, Public Services, incl. Afghan Resettlement
  • Senior Policy advisor, Justice and Home Affairs

Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

  • Analysis and Statistics Division, Analyst