Regional history is already feeding the live product
11,718 official quarter-end supported-asylum values from the North West workbook series now feed live place trends instead of sitting as a dead file register.
Every published source needs a scope label before it gets a chart.
The core publishing rule is simple: route-specific and explicitly local route-relevant sources can appear on public pages. Context-only sources stay in the research layer unless a row can be promoted with a clear route or scheme link.
What matters first
11,718 official quarter-end place values now feed live trends, 14 partner assets are extracted into the source ledger, and archive-only inputs still stay behind a publication gate until separately verified.
Partner pages are now concrete source inputs
14 partner assets and 4 Migration Observatory guide links are now extracted as specific dashboards, tables, and briefings rather than vague recommendations.
Archive leads still have to clear a publication gate
1 archive-only discovery input and 2 recovery tools stay in the research layer until a route-specific or document-backed public claim can be defended.
Scope classes
These classes decide whether a source is ready for public use, needs tighter route framing, or belongs in the background research layer only.
Route specific 11 sources
Route specific
Direct asylum, refugee, or route-specific evidence that can support public charts and claims.
Illegal entry and protection routes chapter
Small boat arrivals, illegal entry route figures, grants of protection, and refugee family reunion context.
Data on asylum and resettlement in local authority areas
Area comparison for asylum support, resettlement, and local refugee pressure where published.
Local authority data on immigration groups
Latest local tables for asylum support, Afghan Resettlement Programme, and Homes for Ukraine.
Local route relevant 8 sources
Local route relevant
Place-level sources that are safe to publish when tied to a route or scheme with clear logic.
Council statements, FOIs, and planning records on asylum hotels or refugee housing
Named hotel sites, unnamed hotel sightings, and route-specific local housing evidence.
Companies House and hotel operator websites
Resolve named asylum hotels to owner groups, operators, brands, and company numbers without guessing at the chain.
North West RSMP data and insights workbook series
Secondary regional workbook series for discovery, historic backfill, and cross-checking route-specific local authority patterns while keeping original source ownership visible.
Context only 2 sources
Context only
Useful research or infrastructure sources that stay out of the public product unless promoted.
General council spending corpus
Background accountability context only, not published as route-specific asylum or refugee spend.
Generic council Contracts Finder notices
Held back unless an individual notice can be shown to be tied to asylum accommodation or a specific refugee or humanitarian route.
North West workbook history
The North West RSMP data page is the clearest recurring regional workbook series currently in scope. It gives the site a usable historic spine instead of only the latest release.
Current regional series 6 snapshots tracked
Data and insights
We have created an interactive data visualizer Tableau that lets you explore the North West migration data released by the Home Office.
Latest workbook 27 Feb 2026
North West Public Accessible February 2026 (XLS, 1398KB)
Latest recoverable regional workbook snapshot for historic backfill, local authority comparison, and route-specific cross-checking.
Extracted official history 354 current areas
11,718 quarter-end values now feed the live place trends
The site is now ingesting official supported-asylum history from 31 Mar 2014 to 31 Dec 2025, rather than only tracking workbook files as research leads.
27 Feb 2026 primary source workbook Open source workbook
Historic workbook register
These snapshots are ordered newest first so overwritten public files do not erase the older regional series.
| Published | Workbook | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Feb 2026 | North West Public Accessible February 2026 (XLS, 1398KB) | Open workbook |
| 5 Dec 2025 | North West Public Accessible November 2025 (xls, 1,272KB) | Open workbook |
| 22 Aug 2025 | North West Public Accessible Data August 2025 (xls, 3,789KB) | Open workbook |
| 23 May 2025 | North West Public Accessible Data May 2025 (XLS, 3,841KB) | Open workbook |
| 31 Jan 2025 | North West Public accessible data November 2024 (xls, 1,211KB) | Open workbook |
| 1 Nov 2024 | North West Public Accessible Data August 2024 (PDF, 6MB) | Open workbook |
Provenance rule
Use the workbook series to discover and verify patterns, not to hide the original owner.
The data provided in this table set comes from a range of published sources and is not provided by the RSMP. The source file data information is found in the data tab on the Tableau series above and queries should be directed to the source data owners in the first instance.
5 older snapshots stay visible
That matters because many partnership sites only surface the newest file and quietly overwrite the old one.
Regional and synthesis watchlist
This is the shortlist of regional partnerships and similar organisations most likely to expand asylum and refugee coverage beyond the current official tables.
4 leads
Strategic migration partnerships and regional data hubs
These are the regional bodies and adjacent organisations most likely to surface usable asylum and refugee spreadsheets, dashboards, or methods worth porting into the site.
Yorkshire and the Humber high historic priority
Migration Yorkshire
England region and local authority
Regional benchmark series and local authority context
Statistics hub with asylum and migration data tools and long-running regional evidence.
asylum • refugees • migration html • dashboard • downloads
North East England high historic priority
North East Migration Partnership
England region and local authority
Regional dashboard and downloadable evidence leads
Partnership data page that can surface current regional series and historic downloads.
asylum • refugees • migration html • dashboard • downloads
London medium historic priority
London Councils
London borough and city region
Comparable city-regional survey evidence and method cues
Useful similar-organisation evidence even though it is not an SMP.
asylum • resettlement html • report
Wales medium historic priority
Wales Strategic Migration Partnership
Wales nation and local authority
Welsh nation-level migration evidence and referral routes
Strategic migration partnership pages include migration data and research entry points.
asylum • refugees • migration html • guidance • data_pages
2 leads
Synthesis and method layers
These pages are valuable because they point back to official datasets, explain caveats, and capture asylum accommodation evidence that is harder to reconstruct from raw tables alone.
United Kingdom medium historic priority
Asylum Information Database (AIDA)
UK asylum reception system and accommodation evidence
Structured secondary evidence on hotel use dispersal geography and contracts
Footnoted UK reception-conditions page with references to official hotel counts contract structure and dispersal realities.
asylum • hotels • dispersal html • report • references
United Kingdom medium historic priority
Migration Observatory
UK local authority and national synthesis
Synthesis guide to official local migration datasets and their limits
Useful for tracing official asylum and refugee datasets and the strengths and caveats of each source.
asylum • refugees • migration html • guide • charts • links
Partner-extracted dashboards and local tables
These assets are now being extracted directly from partner pages, so the site tracks concrete dashboards and source links rather than only keeping a generic watchlist entry for each organisation.
7 assets Yorkshire and the Humber
Migration Yorkshire
dashboard page migration
European Union Settlement Scheme dashboard page
Migration Yorkshire settlement dashboard page for EUSS local data.
dashboard embed migration
European Union Settlement Scheme Power BI dashboard
Direct Power BI view extracted from the Migration Yorkshire EUSS dashboard page.
dashboard page asylum • refugees
Refugee and asylum seeker dashboard page
Explainer page for the Yorkshire and Humber refugee and asylum local dashboard.
dashboard embed asylum • refugees
Refugee and asylum seeker Power BI dashboard
Direct Power BI view extracted from the Migration Yorkshire dashboard page.
hub page asylum • refugees • ukraine • migration
Statistics hub
Regional entry page linking out to Migration Yorkshire dashboards and local data explainers.
dashboard page ukraine • refugees
Ukraine data dashboard page
Migration Yorkshire humanitarian-route dashboard page for the Ukraine scheme.
dashboard embed ukraine • refugees
Ukraine Power BI dashboard
Direct Power BI view extracted from the Migration Yorkshire Ukraine dashboard page.
5 assets North East England
North East Migration Partnership
official source link asylum • refugees
Asylum data - local council data
Official dataset or publication link exposed directly from the NEMP regional data page.
hub page asylum • refugees • ukraine • migration
NEMP data page
Regional data landing page for the North East partnership.
dashboard embed asylum • refugees • ukraine • migration
North East regional Power BI dashboard
Direct Power BI dashboard extracted from the NEMP data page.
official source link asylum • refugees • integration
RASI (resettlement, asylum support, and integration) data, Q2 2023
Official dataset or publication link exposed directly from the NEMP regional data page.
official source link asylum • ukraine • refugees • migration
Regional and local authority data on immigration groups
Official dataset or publication link exposed directly from the NEMP regional data page.
2 assets Wales
Wales Strategic Migration Partnership
data partner migration
Data Cymru
Linked Welsh data partner surfaced from the WSMP observatory page.
hub page asylum • refugees • ukraine • migration
WSMP data observatory
Welsh strategic migration partnership data-observatory landing page.
Migration Observatory traced local tables
The local data guide is now treated as a structured tracing layer. These are the concrete asylum, refugee, and local migration links pulled out of the guide rather than left as a general recommendation.
briefing link asylum • refugees
Asylum and refugee resettlement in the UK
Migration Observatory briefing linked from the local data guide asylum section.
official source link asylum • children
Department for Education UASC source table
UASC local-authority source table linked from the guide.
official source link asylum • refugees
Home Office local-authority asylum and resettlement data
Local-authority asylum and resettlement source table linked out from the guide.
official source link migration
Local Area Migration Indicators suite
ONS local-area migration indicators traced from the Migration Observatory guide.
What the guide is now doing
4 concrete links are now pulled out of the guide
That means the guide can point users toward specific asylum, refugee, UASC, and local migration tables instead of remaining a vague background recommendation.
The guide stays a synthesis layer, but its traced links can still be promoted individually
This keeps the distinction clear between a useful explainer page and the underlying official tables that are safe to chart or cite directly.
Historic recovery tools
high priority UK
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
All web geographies
Fallback capture for deleted workbook URLs and non-government pages
Useful when partnership downloads or Tableau pages move outside the public-sector archive perimeter.
high priority UK
UK Government Web Archive
All public-sector geographies
Recover overwritten public-sector pages and historic attachments
Prefer when a partnership page or council publication has been replaced.
Archive-only discovery inputs
Verification required United Kingdom
migranthotels.net archive snapshot
Named hotel-site discovery map and archived list
Archive-only lead source for candidate hotel sites that still need independent verification
Use only as a discovery layer and never as the sole basis for a published hotel claim.
Source types in use
2 rows
official national
2 rows
official local
1 rows
official contract
4 rows
official funding guidance
2 rows
official scrutiny
1 rows
public evidence
1 rows
entity evidence
2 rows
regional secondary data
1 rows
archive recovery
2 rows
research synthesis
1 rows
archived discovery map
2 rows
context infrastructure
What this protects against
Generic infrastructure stops pretending to be asylum evidence
Councils, contracts, and public finance systems only move onto public pages when they can be tied back to a route or scheme clearly enough to defend.
Discovery leads do not become claims by accident
Archive-only maps and overwritten downloads can generate leads, but they still need an explicit corroboration step before they shape a public hotel record or place claim.
Source ledger
This is the underlying register of sources, their scope label, and how they are allowed to influence the public site.
| Source | Type | Scope | Public use | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illegal entry and protection routes chapter | official national | route_specific | yes | Small boat arrivals, illegal entry route figures, grants of protection, and refugee family reunion context. |
| Data on asylum and resettlement in local authority areas | official local | route_specific | yes | Area comparison for asylum support, resettlement, and local refugee pressure where published. |
| Local authority data on immigration groups | official local | route_specific | yes | Latest local tables for asylum support, Afghan Resettlement Programme, and Homes for Ukraine. |
| Safe and legal humanitarian routes chapter | official national | route_specific | yes | Refugee resettlement schemes, Afghan programme totals, UKRS, Mandate, and community sponsorship context. |
| Asylum accommodation and support contracts | official contract | route_specific | yes | Provider-region map for the asylum accommodation estate. |
| Asylum Grant funding instruction 2025 to 2026 | official funding guidance | route_specific | yes | Baseline and marginal asylum-grant tariff rows in the public money ledger. |
| UK resettlement programmes funding instructions 2025 to 2026 | official funding guidance | route_specific | yes | Official refugee-resettlement funding instruction rows and future tariff normalization. |
| Afghan schemes funding instructions 2024 to 2025 | official funding guidance | route_specific | yes | Official Afghan-programme funding instruction rows pending deeper scheme-component normalization. |
| Homes for Ukraine funding arrangements and councillor guidance | official funding guidance | route_specific | yes | Tariff and welcome-payment rows for the humanitarian-route money layer. |
| National Audit Office asylum accommodation investigation | official scrutiny | route_specific | yes | Hotel cost share, daily-cost context, and contract forecast drift for the asylum accommodation system. |
| Home Affairs Committee asylum accommodation report | official scrutiny | route_specific | yes | Current official hotel count and committee evidence on asylum accommodation. |
| Council statements, FOIs, and planning records on asylum hotels or refugee housing | public evidence | local_route_relevant | yes | Named hotel sites, unnamed hotel sightings, and route-specific local housing evidence. |
| Companies House and hotel operator websites | entity evidence | local_route_relevant | yes, when the match is document-backed | Resolve named asylum hotels to owner groups, operators, brands, and company numbers without guessing at the chain. |
| North West RSMP data and insights workbook series | regional secondary data | local_route_relevant | yes, with provenance caveats | Secondary regional workbook series for discovery, historic backfill, and cross-checking route-specific local authority patterns while keeping original source ownership visible. |
| Strategic Migration Partnership dashboards and regional data hubs | regional secondary data | local_route_relevant | yes, when route labels and source provenance stay explicit | Regional dashboards, workbook series, and data hubs used to identify asylum and refugee series, historic snapshots, and methods worth porting into the public site. |
| Web archives for overwritten migration pages and downloads | archive recovery | local_route_relevant | yes, for preserved public evidence | Recover historic SMP downloads, overwritten council pages, and older migration dashboards when current sites only surface the latest file. |
| Migration Observatory local data guide | research synthesis | local_route_relevant | yes, when the underlying official dataset and caveats stay visible | Method and synthesis layer for tracing local asylum, refugee, and migration datasets without losing their strengths and limitations. |
| AIDA UK accommodation and reception pages | research synthesis | local_route_relevant | yes, for secondary context and source tracing | Secondary evidence on hotel use, initial accommodation, dispersal geography, and contract structure with footnoted references. |
| Archived hotel-map snapshots | archived discovery map | local_route_relevant | yes, only when every site is independently verified | Archive-only discovery layer for candidate asylum hotel sites and local leads that must be corroborated before any public claim. |
| General council spending corpus | context infrastructure | context_only | no | Background accountability context only, not published as route-specific asylum or refugee spend. |
| Generic council Contracts Finder notices | context infrastructure | context_only | no | Held back unless an individual notice can be shown to be tied to asylum accommodation or a specific refugee or humanitarian route. |