... despite calls from experts and campaigners to do so. We set out to gather as much information as possible about each of them. Here, we tell their stories.
This 48-year-old man was found dead in his accommodation in January 2023, according to the Home Office’s Incident Database. His case is marked in internal records as involving self-harm and/or suicide.
Notes in the database state the man had “previously attempted suicide” and that there were thought to be no suspicious circumstances relating to his death.
Police officers told the Home Office they were awaiting the coroner’s report, although this does not appear to have been finalised at the time of writing in May 2023.
This 67-year-old man died in December 2022, but the cause of death remains unknown.
Information about his case in the Home Office’s Incident Database is sparse. The man arrived in the UK in 2017 and had an asylum claim outstanding. He’s said to have died on 24 December 2022.
This 53-year-old man suffered a massive cardiac arrest and passed away in hospital, according to the Home Office’s Incident Database.
Internal notes state there were no suspicious circumstances relating to his death.
This 63-year-old Senegalese woman died in a care home from suspected organ failure, according to the Incident Database.
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.
This Iraqi man arrived in the UK on 23 January 2008 and applied for asylum on the same day. Nearly 15 years later, after his asylum claim had been rejected, he died.
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.
This Rwandan man arrived in the UK in 2002 and submitted an asylum claim, according to the Home Office Incident Database.
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".
This 26-year-old Sudanese man arrived in the UK on 21 June 2021 and submitted an asylum claim the next day.
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 of a 40-year-old Nigerian woman died shortly after birth in hospital in Portsmouth due to lack of oxygen on 23 or 24 June 2021, according to the Home Office's Incident Database.
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.
This 36-year-old from El Salvador had arrived in the UK in November 2020 and submitted an asylum claim. He was admitted to hospital on Friday 2 July 2021 after suffering severe stomach ache, according to the Home Office's Incident Database.
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.
This 40-year-old woman, from Botswana, arrived in the UK on 27 February 2020 and was awaiting an asylum decision when she died.
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.
This 38-year-old Nigerian man died at his accommodation. An entry in the Home Office's Case Information Database states he suffered a stroke in July 2019 and was suffering kidney failure and partial paralysis by the time of his death.
This 80-year-old Pakistani man arrived in the UK in August 2007 and his asylum claim had been refused, according to the Home Office Incident Database; but he was being accommodated under Section 4 of the Asylum Act 1999, which allows for temporary support in some circumstances.
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.
