Official stocks as at 31 March 2026. Schemes listed separately on purpose.
6,587
Home Office asylum support in Scotland. Accommodation types sum to the total. Legal bases (s95, s4, s98) also sum to the total. Both are snapshot stocks — not arrivals that year.
Source: Home Office Asy_D09 / Asy_D11, 31 March 2026
Do not add these three into one total. Dungavel, UKRS and other resettlement routes below are also separate.
Four published types. They sum to 6,587. Hotel is published contingency-hotel stock — not a gap.
Legal basis, not housing type. They sum to 6,587. These are people on that status on 31 March 2026 — not how many entered it that year.
6,040
Main support while a claim is waiting. Most of the 6,587.
524
Narrower leftover route after a claim has failed, if they cannot leave yet.
23
Short-term support at the start. Not the same cut as “initial accommodation” (257).
Not published
Age, gender and dependants are not printed for Scotland asylum support. That is a blank, not a zero. We do not invent a split.
Top 20 published nationalities on asylum support in Scotland. Not a complete list — remainder is not shown as a made-up “other” country.
Source: Home Office Asy_D09, 31 March 2026
393,500
Applications in Scotland, running total to 31 March 2026. Settled 224,224 · pre-settled 125,034. This is not asylum support. Do not add it to 6,587.
These sit next door. They are not in the 6,587. We do not invent a Scotland headcount.
Not published
Family joining a recognised refugee. No Scotland stock in the visa tables. Not added to asylum support, and not a work/study visa.
Not published
British National (Overseas) visas. UK totals exist. A Scotland resident stock is not printed. Not added to 6,587.
Pupil Census English as an additional language. There is no immigration-status column. Do not add these pupils to the 6,587 on asylum support.
10,476
2025 pupil census
Glasgow New to English 3,602. Other competence levels (Scotland): Early acquisition 13,061; Developing 19,621; Competent 15,629; Fluent 14,972.
NOT asylum children. Official English as an Additional Language competence categories. There is no immigration-status column. Do not add these pupils to asylum support stock. Some council cells are suppressed.
Source: Scottish Government Pupil Census supplementary statistics 2025, Table 5.9
