Pre-release access list for: Irregular migration to the UK, year ending December 2023
Published 29 February 2024
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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 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, SBOC Information, Analysis & Headquarters Group
- Director General of Migration and Borders
- Director General of Asylum and Protection
- Director, Migration and Citizenship
- Deputy Director, EEA Citizens’ Rights and Hong Kong Unit
- Senior Policy Advisor, EEA Citizens’ Rights & Hong Kong Unit
- 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