Home Office asylum support
Home Office
6,587 people on support at 31 March 2026. Housing types and legal bases both sum.
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Avenues
Every kind of actor we can name in the reserved and devolved asylum system. Opened where a public paper exists. Labelled not published where it does not. A name is not spend. We do not scrape keyword charities to look complete.
12 kinds opened · 12 labelled not published. Legal immigration is a different map. Serco and Clearsprings already say Scotland AASC footprint is not printed — we do not force them in.
Opened
On the desk with a public paper. Holes inside an opened avenue (Mears year-by-year, Annex A, full hotel list) stay gaps — they are not missing kinds.
Asylum accommodation contractor (AASC)
Mears Limited
Scotland contractor. Envelope and one-year estimate published. Year-by-year cash is a gap.
Contingency hotels
Mears as operator. Site names from press and ICIBI.
895 hotel headcount at 31 March 2026. Named list is incomplete. Full official list and costs are not published. We do not invent names.
Reporting centre
Festival Court, 200 Brand Street, Glasgow
Published reporting centre — signing on. Not the claim interview. Not screening. Not intake. Address: Festival Court, 200 Brand Street, Glasgow G51 1DH.
Advice (AIRE)
Migrant Help
UK envelope published. Scotland cash is a gap.
Detention
Dungavel IRC · Mitie Care & Custody
131 in detention at 31 March 2026. Capacity 150 (HMIP). Annual cash to Mitie is a gap.
32 councils
Local authorities
All 32 printed. Hotel 0 is published zero. Move On Grant names seven.
Legal aid
Scottish Legal Aid Board
Immigration and asylum combined. Firm-level immigration cash is not published.
Appeals
First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
GOV.UK lists Glasgow as a hearing centre (Glasgow Tribunals Centre, 20 York Street, G2 8GT). How many appeals are heard in Scotland is not published as a nation split. That is a blank, not a zero.
Do not invent a Scotland tribunal caseload.
Immigration Enforcement / removal
Home Office Immigration Enforcement
Reporting, detention and removal. In Scotland the published detention stock is Dungavel IRC (131 people at 31 March 2026; capacity 150, HMIP 2025). That is a snapshot, not a yearly flow of removals. Scotland totals for enforced returns, staff or bases are not published.
Do not invent a removal flow.
Borders inspectorate
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
Inspected contingency accommodation. Occupied-bed figures are a visit, not the 31 March 2026 hotel stock.
Prisons inspectorate
HM Inspectorate of Prisons
Inspected Dungavel, 2025. Capacity 150 is the inspection figure, not occupancy.
Named bodies opened on this pass — not extra kinds. A name is not spend.
Independent Child Trafficking Guardian
Separate from Guardianship Scotland (Aberlour) and from Home Office asylum support. Later-year Scotland outturn is not in the public papers this desk holds.
Immigration Advice Authority
The regulator that replaced OISC. A licence to give immigration advice is not legal-aid cash and not a person.
Not published as a Scotland role
The kind of actor exists. The Scotland caseload, payee, or list is not in the papers we used. Missing is not zero. We do not invent a payee.
Claim intake / screening in Scotland
Home Office UKVI
Claims and screening in Scotland are not published as a nation split.
Do not invent a Scotland intake figure.
Escort contractors
Name not published for Scotland on this map
People are moved under escort. The Scotland payee is not published here. We do not name a contractor we cannot source.
Do not invent an escort payee.
Hotel owners (not the operator)
Not published
Mears operates contingency hotels. Building owners are mostly not in the public papers we used. We do not invent names.
Do not invent hotel owners.
Interpreting / language contractors
NHS board contracts (all patients)
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Lothian publish translation spend for all patients — not migrants only. That sits on the work/study/family money page. It is not added to 6,587.
Do not treat NHS interpreting as an asylum pot.
Public audit (Scotland)
Audit Scotland
Oversight of devolved public money. No asylum-specific Scotland cash line is on this map.
Human rights commission
Scottish Human Rights Commission
National human rights institution. An asylum caseload or cash line is not published here.
Ombudsman
Scottish Public Services Ombudsman
Complaints about devolved public services. Asylum-specific volumes are not published here.
Holyrood committees
Scottish Parliament
Committees take evidence. That is not a cash line and not a Scotland asylum stock.
Prosecution
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
Criminal legal aid by person-status is on Who is paid. COPFS itself is not a published asylum payee here.
Dungavel healthcare provider
Not named in the papers we used
Healthcare inside Dungavel is a function. The provider is not named here. We do not invent one.
Do not invent a Dungavel healthcare payee.
Housing associations / private landlords used for dispersal
Not published as a Scotland Home Office list
Dispersal housing exists (5,164 people). The landlord list is not in the papers we used.
Do not invent a landlord list.
Transport / arrival to Scotland
Not published
How people are moved into Scotland is not in these tables.
Do not invent an arrivals flow.