Accredited official statistics

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

Published 27 February 2025

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 Scientific Officer
  • Chief Analyst and Home Office Analysis and Insight Director
  • Director of Returns
  • Director General of Migration and Borders
  • Chief of staff to Director General of Migration and Borders
  • Director General - Asylum and Protection
  • Clandestine Channel Threat Commander
  • Director of Migration and Citizenship
  • Director of Asylum and Human Rights Operations
  • Deputy Director, Visa Status and Information Services Directorate, Customer Services Group
  • Deputy Director, EEA Citizens’ Rights and Hong Kong Unit
  • Senior Policy Advisor, EEA Citizens’ Rights and Hong Kong Unit
  • EEA Citizens’ Rights and Hong Kong Unit
  • Deputy Director PBS and Economic Migration Unit (2)
  • Head of Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility Immigration Policy
  • Refugee Resettlement and Integration
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Asylum Enforcement and Directorate
  • Lead of FBIS Strategy
  • Deputy Director Resettlement Services
  • FNORC Deputy Director
  • Head of Detention Services Corporate Operations and Oversight
  • Head of Asylum Operations Secretariat
  • Deputy Head of Asylum Operations Secretariat
  • Asylum Protection Unit
  • Head of Domestic Asylum Policy
  • Immigration Enforcement Returns (2)
  • Special Advisers (3)
  • Deputy Director, Digital Marketing and Immigration Communications
  • Press Officer, Immigration Desk (6)
  • Digital Content Strategist
  • Home Affairs, Policy Unit (Senior Policy Advisor)
  • Head of Home Affairs Communication

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 Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Home Affairs
  • Lead Data Scientist, Justice and Home Affairs Data Science Team
  • Special Advisor, JHA
  • Special Advisor

Cabinet Office

  • Senior Policy advisor, Justice and Home Affairs

Foreign Commonwealth Development Office

  • Deputy Head of FCDO Migration Department
  • Visas and Borders Policy Team Lead

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

  • Analysis and Statistics Division, Analyst
  • Ukraine Humanitarian Taskforce, Head of Data and Reporting