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The journey

What happens, in order. Numbers are people on that stage on 31 March 2026 — not how many passed through that year.

A stock is a count on one day. A flow is arrivals, decisions, or grants in a period. This page does not invent flows. Missing steps stay blank.

  1. 1 of 9

    Scotland not published

    Claim

    Not published

    Someone asks the Home Office for protection. Claims made in Scotland are not published as a nation split.

    Source: Home Office Asy_D01 / D02 have no UK nation column.

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    Scotland not published

    Screening

    Not published

    A first interview. No Scotland count is published. Festival Court is a reporting centre — not a screening stock.

    Source: Not in the asylum-support local authority tables.

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  3. 3 of 9

    Published stock

    First housing

    257 in initial · 23 on s98

    Short-stay housing at the start. Section 98 is the legal basis; initial accommodation is the housing type. Two cuts of the same snapshot day — not how many arrived that year.

    Source: Home Office Asy_D11, 31 March 2026.

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  4. 4 of 9

    Published stock

    Dispersal or hotel

    5,164 dispersal · 895 hotel

    Housing types on 31 March 2026 while a claim is waiting — not arrivals that year. s95 (6,040) is a legal-basis cut, not the sum of these two types. Subsistence-only 271 is a different housing type, on How many.

    Source: Home Office Asy_D11, 31 March 2026.

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  5. 5 of 9

    Scotland not published

    Decision

    Not published

    Grant or refuse. Scotland splits of decisions and outstanding cases are not published.

    Source: Asy_D01 / D02 — no nation column.

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  6. 7 of 9

    Partial

    After a decision — leftover support

    524 on s4

    Scotland grant and refuse totals are not published. Section 4 is leftover support after a failed claim — not a count of grants. People granted leave leave this 6,587.

    Source: s4 stock: Asy_D11. Decision totals: not published for Scotland.

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  7. 8 of 9

    Partial

    28-day move-on

    Cash published · people not

    After a grant, Home Office support stops. The Move On Grant is published money for people who now have leave. How many people moved on in Scotland that year is not published.

    Source: Home Office Move On Grant funding instruction.

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  8. 9 of 9

    Partial

    Stay, destitution, or removal

    Dungavel 131

    Stay with leave is not asylum support. Destitution spend (COSLA NRPF) is a different pot. Removal in Scotland: 131 people in Dungavel at the snapshot — not a yearly flow. Removal operations as a yearly Scotland flow: not published.

    Source: Det_D01 / Det_D02; COSLA NRPF. Not added to 6,587.

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