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East Ayrshire

Updated 30 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Alan Gemmell
Alan GemmellLabour · Central Ayrshire

2 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping East Ayrshire.

78 people on asylum support in East Ayrshire

Rank 195 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 6.43 per 10,000 puts East Ayrshire in the 50th percentile. That means a moderate load compared to the national picture. 3 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. Accommodation and support for 78 people at £107 per person per day is about £3.0M a year.

What asylum costs East Ayrshire

£1.8Mestimated hotel costs/year
£199Ksubsistence payments/year
£94KLA dispersal grant/year

Estimates based on 78 people on asylum support in East Ayrshire(0.08% of 93,293 nationally at 30 Jun 2026). Hotel costs pro-rated from £5.77M/day national spend in 2024/25 (House of Commons Library, CDP-2025-0184). Subsistence: £49.18/week per person.

East Ayrshire: asylum numbers still rising

Quarter-end stock series to Dec 2025. A rise or fall is a net change in the number of people on support at period end, not the number of new claims or distinct people moving through the caseload. Support stock also overlaps with, but is not identical to, the awaiting-decision backlog.

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6040200Sept 2016Dec 2025Peak Dec 2025Rwanda scrapped
Exact values
PeriodValue
Sept 20161
Dec 20161
Mar 20171
Jun 20171
Sept 20171
Dec 20171
Mar 20181
Dec 20192
Mar 20202
Jun 20202
Sept 20202
Dec 20202
Dec 202314
Mar 202416
Jun 202420
Sept 202435
Dec 202451
Mar 202543
Jun 202540
Sept 202545
Dec 202560

Trend

+15Latest quarter change
+59Change across series
21Official data points

Local numbers

Accommodation split

Dispersal accommodation74
Initial accommodation1
Subsistence only3
Contingency accommodation0

Pathway breakdown

Supported asylum
78
Homes for Ukraine
134
Afghan programme
14
Resettlement cumulative
96

Other routes

Homes for Ukraine134
Afghan programme14
Resettlement cumulative96

Population context

All pathways total226
Share of local population0.19%
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