{"title":"Quantified ministerial claims on immigration (Hansard)","source":"Official Report (Hansard), UK Parliament","sourceUrl":"https://hansard.parliament.uk/","period":"statements to 2026-07-15","asOf":"2026-08-21","licence":"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","columns":["date","house","speaker","role","debate","quote","subjects","url"],"rows":[["2026-07-15","Commons","Sir Keir Starmer","The Prime Minister","Engagements","I am pleased that net migration is down 82%, small boat crossings are down 40%, the asylum backlog is down, we are closing asylum hotels and we deported 70,000 people with no right to be here.","small-boats|net-migration|backlog|hotels|returns","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-07-15/debates/2D232A65-1C87-4F30-A1E9-B338D83A4BFE/engagements#contribution-A51E17B0-D013-4C7A-811D-0B8FAE300082"],["2026-07-13","Commons","Shabana Mahmood","The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Shabana Mahmood)","Immigration and Asylum Bill","The Conservative Government had ceded control of our borders to criminal gangs and, as a result, between January 2021 and June 2024, 110,000 people arrived here by small boat, while a further 175,000 claimed asylum by other routes.","small-boats","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-07-13/debates/B6090DEC-6655-4D3F-A6CE-6D762597C5F3/immigration-and-asylum-bill#contribution-128BEA88-10E1-4277-A5A7-398CF915EB90"],["2026-07-13","Commons","Shabana Mahmood","The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Shabana Mahmood)","Immigration and Asylum Bill","In just a single year, spending on asylum support was £4.7 billion, including £9 million spent daily on housing people in 400 asylum hotels.","hotels","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-07-13/debates/B6090DEC-6655-4D3F-A6CE-6D762597C5F3/immigration-and-asylum-bill#contribution-128BEA88-10E1-4277-A5A7-398CF915EB90"],["2026-07-13","Commons","Mike Tapp","The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mike Tapp)","Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation","Over 44,000 channel crossings have been stopped in partnership with the French.","small-boats","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-07-13/debates/EE7AC3BB-248E-4EFB-AE42-5765DECC8B95/illegal-immigrants-offshore-detention-and-deportation#contribution-4BC396AB-29C4-456F-AA67-8F832B3D4028"],["2026-07-09","Lords","Lord Hanson of Flint","The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Hanson of Flint) (Lab)","UK Migration","Net migration increased from 2021 to record levels in 2023, reaching 944,000 at its peak.","net-migration","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-07-09/debates/0EEC75BC-0F51-46CD-9F5F-F62108C72300/uk-migration#contribution-76B75C5A-2DD3-4BB7-835B-EDD5CC63039C"],["2026-07-09","Lords","Lord Hanson of Flint","The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Hanson of Flint) (Lab)","UK Migration","Net migration fell to 171,000 by the end of 2025—an 82% decrease compared to the peak and the lowest level since the pandemic.","net-migration","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-07-09/debates/0EEC75BC-0F51-46CD-9F5F-F62108C72300/uk-migration#contribution-76B75C5A-2DD3-4BB7-835B-EDD5CC63039C"],["2026-07-01","Commons","Sir Keir Starmer","The Prime Minister","Engagements","I am very proud of the fact that after net migration reached almost 1 million under the Conservatives, we have brought it down by 82%.","net-migration","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-07-01/debates/2E4D40C7-4A4D-4764-8E5F-8F087631475B/engagements#contribution-8C83EB7F-6A30-49BB-A430-B92D42E88642"],["2026-07-01","Commons","Sir Keir Starmer","The Prime Minister","Engagements","The hon. Gentleman references the asylum system; asylum decisions are being made at record levels, the backlog is down, removals are up 41% and we are closing asylum hotels.","backlog|hotels|returns","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-07-01/debates/2E4D40C7-4A4D-4764-8E5F-8F087631475B/engagements#contribution-8C83EB7F-6A30-49BB-A430-B92D42E88642"],["2026-06-29","Commons","Alex Norris","The Minister for Border Security and Asylum (Alex Norris)","Asylum Accommodation","In April we announced that 11 asylum hotels had been closed and given back to local communities.","hotels","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-29/debates/FB046FE1-FFB9-402D-92B1-B8462C36EB75/asylum-accommodation#contribution-697AED1E-FCD0-4FF3-B9C1-1E39BF9BE3CE"],["2026-06-29","Commons","Alex Norris","The Minister for Border Security and Asylum (Alex Norris)","Asylum Accommodation","That means that just under 170 asylum hotels remain in use, which is a reduction of more than half compared with the peak of around 400 under the previous Government.","hotels","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-29/debates/FB046FE1-FFB9-402D-92B1-B8462C36EB75/asylum-accommodation#contribution-697AED1E-FCD0-4FF3-B9C1-1E39BF9BE3CE"],["2026-06-22","Commons","Mr David Lammy","The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr David Lammy)","G7 Summit","We have removed 9,000 foreign national offenders, and we are closing asylum hotels.","hotels","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-22/debates/1579FBB0-600F-4C42-8BD4-D18E5A990B2A/g7-summit#contribution-8AF65E4F-7B74-48F3-86E2-015AAF5B806D"],["2026-06-22","Commons","Mr David Lammy","The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr David Lammy)","G7 Summit","Under the last Government, net migration reached almost 1 million.","net-migration","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-22/debates/1579FBB0-600F-4C42-8BD4-D18E5A990B2A/g7-summit#contribution-8AF65E4F-7B74-48F3-86E2-015AAF5B806D"],["2026-06-17","Commons","Mr David Lammy","The Deputy Prime Minister","Engagements","On the central issue, I am proud that we have seen a reduction in net migration of 82% over the 23 months that we have been in power.","net-migration","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-17/debates/7CF38D3A-6A50-4E33-832E-3FA3CE40D744/engagements#contribution-FE015138-9B7D-48F2-BFF1-18D1BFE45651"],["2026-06-17","Commons","Mr David Lammy","The Deputy Prime Minister","Engagements","They do not want to talk about the economy because it is growing, they do not want to talk about the NHS because waiting lists are falling, and they do not want to talk about immigration because they lost control of our borders and net migration is down under us by 82%.","net-migration","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-17/debates/7CF38D3A-6A50-4E33-832E-3FA3CE40D744/engagements#contribution-00B63A97-BEF2-421F-A41F-864C54E3B434"],["2026-06-03","Commons","Sir Keir Starmer","The Prime Minister","Engagements","Net migration, which reached nearly a million under the Conservatives—the Leader of the Opposition was the cheerleader—is down by a staggering 82%.","net-migration","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-03/debates/051DBB77-8D86-47FD-91B3-95DD68A17CC0/engagements#contribution-A6A135AB-6AAF-4612-8E8D-7379582CCD8D"],["2026-06-03","Commons","Mike Tapp","The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mike Tapp)","Improving the UK Visa System","At its peak, net migration hit nearly 1 million in one year.","net-migration","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-03/debates/DC6802F8-AB12-41EC-9036-6A80768402BE/improving-the-uk-visa-system#contribution-25269E0C-D803-45C6-8437-1F1502BC66E5"],["2026-06-03","Commons","Mike Tapp","The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mike Tapp)","Improving the UK Visa System","In our time in government, we have seen net migration fall by 82% from its peak and by 48% in the last year, and emigration, despite what it says on X, has remained flat.","net-migration","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-03/debates/DC6802F8-AB12-41EC-9036-6A80768402BE/improving-the-uk-visa-system#contribution-25269E0C-D803-45C6-8437-1F1502BC66E5"],["2026-05-18","Lords","Baroness Levitt","The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Baroness Levitt) (Lab)","King’s Speech","We have made a good start: we have cut £1 billion from the asylum Bill, and we have increased the return of illegal immigrants by 31% since coming into office.","returns","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-05-18/debates/353770A7-17B3-4586-A7C6-8DA45E4E07A4/king-s-speech#contribution-448A484C-6B1F-4605-A101-50A8F456F1FB"],["2026-05-18","Lords","Lord Hanson of Flint","The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Hanson of Flint) (Lab)","King’s Speech","We have stopped 40,000 attempted channel crossings in partnership with the French.","small-boats","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-05-18/debates/353770A7-17B3-4586-A7C6-8DA45E4E07A4/king-s-speech#contribution-3D60FB95-8559-48BE-8D30-550FFDF612A3"],["2026-04-14","Lords","Lord Hanson of Flint","The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Hanson of Flint) (Lab)","Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules","The Government have put in place around 1,000 extra staff—paid for by the scrapping of the Rwanda scheme—to improve the performance of the asylum system and the review of asylum backlogs.","backlog","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-04-14/debates/C29402F7-2444-4DA1-85EF-EE1173799E62/statement-of-changes-in-immigration-rules#contribution-AD5F4952-8F82-40E3-897A-F0B0E82634C7"],["2026-04-14","Lords","Lord Hanson of Flint","The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Hanson of Flint) (Lab)","Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules","We have returned 58,538 people in the past 12 months who had no right to remain, including foreign national offenders who should not have been here.","returns","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-04-14/debates/C29402F7-2444-4DA1-85EF-EE1173799E62/statement-of-changes-in-immigration-rules#contribution-AD5F4952-8F82-40E3-897A-F0B0E82634C7"],["2026-03-17","Commons","Alex Norris","The Minister for Border Security and Asylum (Alex Norris)","Immigration Reforms","From the four countries for which we implemented visa brakes—Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan—asylum applications had risen to more than 470% of their 2021 level.","claims","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-03-17/debates/4F72CE9C-6D61-4E45-BC07-E520ACF795B7/immigration-reforms#contribution-B9575B55-A3D8-4A0D-A64F-F2A1E2BD5CFC"],["2026-02-26","Lords","Lord Hanson of Flint","The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Hanson of Flint) (Lab)","Electronic Travel Authorisation: Dual Nationals","They show that asylum hotels are at the lowest level for 18 months, which coincides with the UK Labour Government; the asylum backlog has fallen for the fourth quarter in a row to 64,426; and small boat arrivals are 9% lower than the peak in 2022.","small-boats|backlog|hotels","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-02-26/debates/EA1FC5CD-77EE-45EB-82D0-C69333B6F123/electronic-travel-authorisation-dual-nationals#contribution-67DFDD16-7B56-4D3A-A429-AFAC71FAD11A"]]}