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Glasgow City

Updated 30 Jun 2026 · Home Office
John Grady
John GradyLabour · Glasgow East

6 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Glasgow City.

3,938 people on asylum support in Glasgow City

Rank 1 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 60.18 per 10,000 puts Glasgow City in the 100th percentile. That means this area carries more asylum seekers per head than 90% of the country. 164 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. Accommodation and support for 3,938 people at £107 per person per day is about £153.8M a year.

What asylum costs Glasgow City

£88.9Mestimated hotel costs/year
£10.1Msubsistence payments/year
£4.7MLA dispersal grant/year

Estimates based on 3,938 people on asylum support in Glasgow City(4.22% 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.

Glasgow City: 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.

3,835
4,8213,2141,6070Mar 2018Dec 2025Peak Sept 2020Rwanda schemeAlbania dealBibby StockholmRwanda scrapped
Exact values
PeriodValue
Mar 20184,328
Jun 20184,340
Sept 20184,484
Dec 20184,548
Mar 20194,538
Jun 20194,511
Sept 20194,556
Dec 20194,297
Mar 20204,359
Jun 20204,616
Sept 20204,821
Dec 20204,760
Mar 20214,684
Jun 20214,324
Sept 20214,374
Dec 20214,482
Mar 20224,568
Jun 20224,683
Sept 20224,635
Dec 20224,569
Mar 20234,520
Jun 20234,694
Sept 20234,678
Dec 20233,939
Mar 20244,279
Jun 20243,868
Sept 20244,075
Dec 20244,193
Mar 20254,152
Jun 20253,844
Sept 20253,777
Dec 20253,835

Trend

+58Latest quarter change
-493Change across series
32Official data points

Local numbers

Accommodation split

Dispersal accommodation3,535
Initial accommodation239
Subsistence only164
Contingency accommodation0

Pathway breakdown

Supported asylum
3,938
Homes for Ukraine
621
Afghan programme
209
Resettlement cumulative
109

Other routes

Homes for Ukraine621
Afghan programme209
Resettlement cumulative109

Population context

All pathways total4,768
Share of local population0.73%
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