The Home Office does not publish data on the deaths of asylum seekers in its housing...

His cause of death is yet to be confirmed. The entry says: “Customer was found unresponsive in his accommodation and pronounced dead by paramedics when they arrived on the scene.”

The Home Office decided in 2023 to begin redacting nationalities from copies of the Incident Database disclosed to reporters, despite having provided this information in previous disclosures. As a result, it is not currently known where the deceased originated from.

The woman had arrived in Britain in June 2022 and was awaiting a decision on her application for refugee status.  

The Home Office decided in 2023 to begin redacting nationalities from copies of the Incident Database disclosed to reporters, despite having provided this information in previous disclosures. As a result, it is not currently known where the deceased originated from.

She had been admitted to hospital shortly after being placed in dispersal (long-term) asylum accommodation in the Midlands and was placed in a care home at the start of June 2022.   

Home Office officials checked a box in their records indicating his case involved self harm or suicide. They also wrote the death was “not treated as souspicious [sic] due to medical history”. 

An incident report completed by the man's housing provider says he was found dead after concerns were raised by a support worker.

The Home Office provides no further details in its records, but lists the man’s death as “explained”. It has previously said it categorises a death as “explained” when it has concluded it is neither suicide nor suspicious or criminal in nature. 

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His file is marked "further subs outstanding" and states he was receiving support under Section 4 of the Asylum Act, which likely means his claim had been refused but he was due to make additional submissions for a fresh claim.

Serco informed the Home Office of the man's death early on 15 July 2021. It is not known how he died and the case is marked as "open".

Home Office records state a Mears housing officer claimed they received an SMS from the man's housemate on 19 July saying he'd drowned while swimming with friends.

Inquiries by the housing officer suggested the man had been feeling depressed and went to see his friends "to improve his mental state".

The baby's mother had arrived in the UK in 2017 and submitted a claim for asylum in September 2020, and was awaiting a decision at the time.

Clearsprings Ready Homes staff learned of the death when they carried out a property inspection of the woman's accommodation on 5 July. The case was marked for no further action.

He was last seen by Serco staff at his accommodation by the housing officer on the 25 and 28 June, to issue him with some money. On both occasions, the Incident Database states he was up and spending time in the lounge.

Serco staff told the Home Office he was asked if he was well, and that he replied that he was. They also claimed he never mentioned stomach or health issues, the Home Office notes state.

The cause of death isn't noted in the database and the man's case is marked as open.

The Home Office's Incident Database states the woman had been diagnosed with cancer. She was admitted to St James' Hospital, Leeds, at 1am on 27 July 2021. A welfare manager who called the hospital to ask after her was told the cancer was progressing quickly and she was not expected to live long. She passed away the next day.

He was "known to have health issues" according to the Home Office's Incident Database, and died at the Royal Blackburn Hospital on 6 August 2021.

In a Home Office High Profile Notification form, an official wrote that there was evidence the man had previously tried to enter the UK under a different name and, when told he could not enter, said: "Please, I don't want to go back to France, shoot me now." He was placed in detention where he self-harmed by headbutting a wall.

It appears, though, that when the man subsequently re-entered the UK and made an asylum claim, his information in the Home Office's Case Information Database was not called up. Instead a new, separate record was created - meaning his historic comments and self-harm were not available to those responsible for processing his claim or supporting him.