Home Office · length of detention: C: Over 1 week to 2 weeks

People leaving immigration detention: C: Over 1 week to 2 weeks

4 periods to 2026 Q2

3,320 people

People leaving immigration detention for C: Over 1 week to 2 weeks totalled 3,320 people in the 4 periods to 2026 Q2, down 10.7% (396) on the 4 periods before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. Data_Det_D03
  3. all rows; Length of detention=C: Over 1 week to 2 weeks
  4. column “Leaving
  5. sum of 152 rows per period
  6. published 27 August 2026

2010 Q1 to 2026 Q2

People leaving immigration detention by length of detention: 2010 Q1 to 2026 Q2LabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour05001k20102015202020252010 Q1: 783 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q2: 683 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q3: 818 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q4: 899 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q1: 988 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q2: 958 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q3: 981 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q4: 1,057 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q1: 943 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q2: 975 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q3: 888 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q4: 885 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q1: 878 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q2: 940 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q3: 820 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q4: 804 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q1: 737 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q2: 786 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q3: 956 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q4: 1,001 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q1: 741 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q2: 860 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q3: 1,143 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q4: 1,007 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q1: 810 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q2: 813 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q3: 911 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q4: 938 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q1: 973 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q2: 842 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q3: 789 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q4: 1,074 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q1: 1,075 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 1,041 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 896 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 1,118 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 1,006 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 882 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 1,047 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 1,119 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 929 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 73 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 237 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 369 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 193 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 289 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 348 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 454 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 455 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 367 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 616 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 1,253 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 640 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 663 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 763 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 756 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 706 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 781 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 786 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 1,088 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 885 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 957 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 1,207 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 1,212 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 572 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 329 people · published 27 August 2026

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The chart as a table
PeriodPeople leaving immigration detention by length of detention
2010 Q1783 people
2010 Q2683 people
2010 Q3818 people
2010 Q4899 people
2011 Q1988 people
2011 Q2958 people
2011 Q3981 people
2011 Q41,057 people
2012 Q1943 people
2012 Q2975 people
2012 Q3888 people
2012 Q4885 people
2013 Q1878 people
2013 Q2940 people
2013 Q3820 people
2013 Q4804 people
2014 Q1737 people
2014 Q2786 people
2014 Q3956 people
2014 Q41,001 people
2015 Q1741 people
2015 Q2860 people
2015 Q31,143 people
2015 Q41,007 people
2016 Q1810 people
2016 Q2813 people
2016 Q3911 people
2016 Q4938 people
2017 Q1973 people
2017 Q2842 people
2017 Q3789 people
2017 Q41,074 people
2018 Q11,075 people
2018 Q21,041 people
2018 Q3896 people
2018 Q41,118 people
2019 Q11,006 people
2019 Q2882 people
2019 Q31,047 people
2019 Q41,119 people
2020 Q1929 people
2020 Q273 people
2020 Q3237 people
2020 Q4369 people
2021 Q1193 people
2021 Q2289 people
2021 Q3348 people
2021 Q4454 people
2022 Q1455 people
2022 Q2367 people
2022 Q3616 people
2022 Q41,253 people
2023 Q1640 people
2023 Q2663 people
2023 Q3763 people
2023 Q4756 people
2024 Q1706 people
2024 Q2781 people
2024 Q3786 people
2024 Q41,088 people
2025 Q1885 people
2025 Q2957 people
2025 Q31,207 people
2025 Q41,212 people
2026 Q1572 people
2026 Q2329 people

What this measures

The number of people who left immigration detention in each quarter, split by how long they had been detained, from up to three days to over four years.

How long people still in detention have been held (that is the detention population snapshot), or time spent across separate spells of detention.

Source

Dataset
Immigration system statistics: people leaving immigration detention dataset
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026 · sha256 51b4d9100ad36864
All values
People leaving immigration detention by length of detention