Asylum in Scotland6,587 · 31 March 2026
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What is missing?

Priority first. An FOI ask sits on each card. Missing is not zero.

These are the holes in the public record, ranked by how much they block a Scotland cash trail. “Sent” means we marked the ask as sent — it is not an independent check of WhatDoTheyKnow on this pass, and it is not proof the paper exists. Missing is not zero. Rules for what we will not invent are on Why trust this.

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Gap 1Priority

Home Office → Mears: Scotland-only annual cash

The AASC Scotland contract envelope is published (£514m, 2019–~2029). Year-by-year Scotland cash paid to Mears is still not in public FOI logs. Envelope is not outturn.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Home Office / AASC

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please provide the amount paid to Mears Group and its subsidiaries under the AASC Scotland contract for each financial year from 2019/20 to the latest complete year, as a Scotland-only figure — not the UK group total, and not the contract envelope.

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Gap 2Priority

Asylum Grant 2026–27 — Annex A

Tariff rates are published (£1,200 per occupied bedspace). The annex naming each council allocation is not on GOV.UK. We do not invent Scotland cash = headcount × tariff.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Home Office → councils

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please publish Annex A to the 2026–27 asylum dispersal grant funding instruction, naming each Scottish local authority allocation.

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Gap 3Priority

Full hotel list with published costs

Seven hotels are publicly named, plus Piries with Learmonth. ICIBI photographed an unnamed Glasgow female hostel. Cameron Barracks is a GOV.UK military-sites factsheet, not the 31 March 2026 hotel stock. A complete official Scotland hotel list with costs is still not held as one stable public file.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Home Office / contingency

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please provide the current list of contingency asylum accommodation sites in Scotland, with local authority, bedspaces, occupancy and cost for the latest month.

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Gap 4Priority

How grants were spent inside the payee

We can show SG paid SRC a named amount. Internal spend is often not in the same public line.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: All pots

Status: Not sent

What to ask

For each named grant paid to the organisation, please provide the internal breakdown of how that grant was spent in the latest complete year.

Gap 5Priority

Home Office spend over £25k — Jun to Aug 2026

May 2026 is the latest published month (updated 30 July 2026). June, July and August 2026 are not published. UK invoices are not a Scotland cash line.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Home Office / transparency

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please publish the Home Office spend-over-£25,000 returns for June, July and August 2026.

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Also missing

Gap 6

Scottish Government spend over £25k from July 2025

The public collection lists through June 2025 only. Later months are not published here.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Scottish Government / transparency

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please publish Scottish Government spend-over-£25,000 from July 2025 onwards.

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Gap 7

Asylum decisions, claims and backlog in Scotland

Asy_D01 / D02 have no UK nation column. Claims made in Scotland are not held as a published split. Appeals venue is now named (Glasgow Tribunals Centre). The caseload is still not published.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Home Office statistics

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please provide a Scotland split of asylum claims, decisions and outstanding cases — or confirm in writing that this nation split is not held.

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Gap 8

EUSS, BN(O), family reunion, UASC stock

No Scotland split is published for EUSS, Hong Kong BN(O) or family reunion. UASC caseload stock is not held; grant rates are published separately and are not a cash line.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Home Office statistics

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please provide Scotland stock figures for EUSS, BN(O), family reunion and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, or confirm they are not held as a nation split.

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Gap 9

Council open spend CSVs

Spend-over-£500 / £25k supplier CSVs were not published for Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Aberdeenshire, South and North Lanarkshire, Dundee or Inverclyde. Missing is not zero.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Local government

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please publish this council's spend-over-£500 / £25,000 supplier CSV for the latest complete year, including a column that allows asylum, refugee or hotel payments to be identified.

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Gap 10

New Scots Year 2 report

The Year 2 New Scots report is not published.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Scottish Government

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please publish the New Scots Year 2 report, or give the date it will be published.

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Gap 11

ALEO spend-over-£25k — asylum keyword lines

National Public Bodies Directory captured 27 May 2026. Scottish Enterprise spend-over-£25k 2023/24 and 2024/25: no asylum/refugee keyword payment lines. SDS refugees page is a role, not a £25k table. Whole grant-in-aid is not ingested. Missing is not zero.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Scottish Government / public bodies

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please publish spend-over-£25,000 for this public body with any asylum or refugee keyword payment lines, or confirm none exist.

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Gap 12

GrantNav charity grants

Live GrantNav search was blocked (HTTP 429). Publisher dumps and a Scotland export were read. 824 names sit in the organisation register — a name or an OSCR keyword is not spend. Home Office Asylum Dispersal rows mix English council names with Scottish postcodes; we do not treat them as Annex A. Inclusion Funds 2025–27 via Inspiring Scotland is a separate published award series of £1,069,116 to 10 organisations.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Charity / Lottery

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Live GrantNav search returned HTTP 429. The published dumps are partial. This is not an FOI to a public body.

Gap 13

Guardianship Scotland cash split

Aberlour is the published Guardianship partner. Whole-charity OSCR income is not a Guardianship cash line. The caseload / Aberlour split is not in public FOI logs.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Scottish Government / charity

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please provide the Guardianship Scotland caseload and the amount paid to Aberlour Child Care Trust for that service in the latest complete year — separate from whole-charity income.

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Gap 14

ICTG trafficking outturn — later years

An older ICTG FOI exists. Newer-year Independent Child Trafficking Guardian outturn is not in public FOI logs this desk holds. Separate pot from asylum support and from Guardianship. Do not use Aberlour whole-charity income as ICTG cash.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: Scottish Government / trafficking

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please provide Independent Child Trafficking Guardian outturn for Scotland for the latest complete years, separate from Guardianship Scotland.

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Gap 15

SLAB immigration and asylum £ by firm

Firm earnings 2024/25 are all civil work, not an immigration-tagged cash line. An August 2023 FOI promised an Excel of cases by firm for civil non-family areas of law; the PDF says see separate Excel — that file is not on the disclosure log. Andrews Immigration Solicitors’ small total is a name tag, not the pot.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: SLAB / legal aid

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please publish immigration and asylum legal aid paid to each firm for the latest complete year, separate from all-civil firm earnings, and release the Excel promised in the August 2023 cases-by-firm FOI.

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Gap 16

SLAB App2 / App5 for 2020/21 and 2021/22

Primary category tables for those years were not on the current annual-reports page. 2021/22 A&A £9.958m / 9,794 cases is a secondary press FOI only. 2025/26 is not published.

Who to ask: Not assigned — do not guess a body

Pot: SLAB / legal aid

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Please publish Appendix 2 and Appendix 5 immigration-and-asylum lines for 2020/21 and 2021/22, or point to the archived annual report files.

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Gap 17

Afghan pathway split (ARAP / ACRS / ARR) for Scotland

separate Afghan scheme cards beyond combined Reg_02 total 2,059

Who to ask: Home Office

Pot:

FOIA 2000 Scotland total by pathway first; LA matrix only if within cost.

Status: Not sent

What to ask

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, for Scotland as at 31 March 2026, please break down the Afghan Resettlement Programme stock (Reg_02 total) into ARAP, ACRS (including any cohorts), and any ARR / other Afghan pathways, ideally by Scottish local authority. If pathway IDs differ, please supply the definitions used.

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Gap 18

AIRE Scotland-only cash

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Who to ask: Home Office

Pot: ho-aire

FOIA 2000

Status: Ask marked sent — not a WDTK check this pass

What to ask

Please provide any management information showing amounts paid under the AIRE contract (Migrant Help) attributable to services delivered in Scotland, by financial year for 2019/20 onwards. If no Scotland split is held, please confirm.

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Gap 19

Dungavel IRC annual outturn

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Who to ask: Home Office

Pot: ho-detention-dungavel

FOIA 2000

Status: Ask marked sent — not a WDTK check this pass

What to ask

Please provide annual amounts paid to Mitie Care & Custody Ltd specifically for Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre (excluding Derwentside and other IRCs), by financial year from 2021/22 to the latest complete year.

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