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Home Office · 9 June 2017 – 13 December 2019

Enforced returns during the Conservative 2017–2019 government

2016 → 2018 · 2 periods

↓ 22.4%−2,667 returns

Enforced returns fell by 22.4% over the period, from 11,903 returns (2016, the level when the government took office) to 9,236 (2018, the last complete period before it left office).

  1. Inherited level 2016: 11,903
  2. Level when it left 2018: 9,236
  3. method: latest complete period before start / before end

Changes during this period do not by themselves show what the government caused. Statistics reflect many influences, including earlier decisions, the economy and how the data is collected.

Enforced returns: 2004 to Year ending June 2026LabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour010k20k200520102015202020252004: 21,425 returns · published 27 August 20262005: 20,808 returns · published 27 August 20262006: 19,372 returns · published 27 August 20262007: 13,874 returns · published 27 August 20262008: 13,433 returns · published 27 August 20262009: 12,507 returns · published 27 August 20262010: 13,928 returns · published 27 August 20262011: 14,566 returns · published 27 August 20262012: 15,134 returns · published 27 August 20262013: 14,850 returns · published 27 August 20262014: 13,541 returns · published 27 August 20262015: 12,921 returns · published 27 August 20262016: 11,903 returns · published 27 August 20262017: 11,741 returns · published 27 August 20262018: 9,236 returns · published 27 August 20262019: 7,198 returns · published 27 August 20262020: 3,383 returns · published 27 August 20262021: 2,788 returns · published 27 August 20262022: 3,806 returns · published 27 August 20262023: 6,362 returns · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2025: 9,077 returns · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2026: 9,669 returns · published 27 August 2026
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Definition and caveats

The number of enforced returns from the UK in a 12-month period, comprising enforced removals (from detention or not) and other returns from detention.

Doesn’t measure: Voluntary returns, people refused entry at port who then departed, or deportations as a legal category on their own.