An impact assessment for the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026 sets out estimated costs and benefits of the bill’s policies, analysing economic and fiscal implications of proposed immigration measures.
Impact assessment
Tables report confirmed toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae cases among asylum seekers in England covering 2022–2026, detailing incidence by year to support public health surveillance and outbreak response planning.
Survey
Explores illegal working among gig economy workers and business owners’ attitudes to compliance in sectors vulnerable to illegal working, presenting worker and employer perspectives on prevalence, motivations and enforcement challenges.
Mixed methodsbyIFF Research
Inspects the Home Office’s Future Border and Immigration System (FBIS) programme to assess whether eight specified benefits have been delivered or are being delivered with demonstrable efficiency and effectiveness improvements to border and immigration operations.
Evaluation
Compilation of reports and surveys assessing the seasonal workers pilot from 2019 to 2025, reviewing how the scheme operated over that period and its performance for employers, workers and delivery arrangements.
Evidence review
Presents Home Office visa data for the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, showing counts by age and sex of applicants with separate tables for the UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Provides counts of Ukrainian nationals in employment across the UK, broken down by age, gender and region, with separate figures for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to show labour market participation patterns.
Opinion from the Regulatory Policy Committee reviewing the Home Office impact assessment for the Immigration and Asylum Bill, focusing on the quality of evidence, modelling and analytical conclusions provided.
Evaluation
National survey reports arrivals’ satisfaction with border services, confidence in border security, views on Border Force staff behaviour and experiences of digital border services for the year ending March 2026.
SurveybyIpsos
Independent evaluation examines several initiatives intended to improve the ‘move on’ process, focusing on how they were implemented, initial impacts and their value for money for participants and delivery bodies.
EvaluationbyNatCen
Impact assessments accompanying the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025 set out the expected effects of the government’s proposed measures introduced to the Commons on 30 January 2025, assessing costs, benefits and implementation implications.
Impact assessmentbyIFF Research