Official Statistics

Pre-release access list for: Irregular migration to the UK, year ending June 2024

Published 22 August 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 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 General of Immigration Enforcement
  • Director General of Migration and Borders
  • Director General - Asylum and Protection
  • PB1 Director for Information, Delivery & HQ Group, Small Boats Operational Command
  • 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 & Hong Kong Unit
  • EEA Citizens Rights and BNOs Unit
  • Head of Economic Migration Policy
  • Deputy Director, PBS and Economic Migration Unit
  • Head of Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility Immigration Policy
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Asylum Strategy and International
  • Lead of FBIS Strategy
  • Deputy Director Resettlement Services Corporate Delivery
  • FNORC Deputy Director
  • Asylum and Protection Unit
  • Head of Asylum Operations Secretariat
  • Head of Detention Services Corporate Operations and Oversight
  • Special Advisers (3)
  • Head of News, Communications Directorate
  • Press Office, Immigration Desk (7)

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
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Home Affairs
  • Lead Data Scientist, Justice and Home Affairs, No.10 Data Science team
  • Head of Policy Unit
  • Communications (3)

Cabinet Office

  • Director, Domestic Affairs, EDS, Cabinet Office
  • Senior Policy advisor, Justice and Home Affairs
  • Irregular Migration lead, Economic and Domestic Affairs

Foreign Commonwealth Development Office

  • Deputy head, Migration Department
  • Visas and Borders Policy Team Lead