Home Office · length of detention: F: 2 months to less than 3 months
People leaving immigration detention: F: 2 months to less than 3 months
4 periods to 2026 Q2
1,591 people
People leaving immigration detention for F: 2 months to less than 3 months totalled 1,591 people in the 4 periods to 2026 Q2, down 3.3% (54) on the 4 periods before.
- Home Office dataset
- Data_Det_D03
- all rows; Length of detention=F: 2 months to less than 3 months
- column “Leaving”
- sum of 182 rows per period
- published 27 August 2026
2010 Q1 to 2026 Q2
The chart as a table
| Period | People leaving immigration detention by length of detention |
|---|---|
| 2010 Q1 | 389 people |
| 2010 Q2 | 441 people |
| 2010 Q3 | 437 people |
| 2010 Q4 | 451 people |
| 2011 Q1 | 476 people |
| 2011 Q2 | 433 people |
| 2011 Q3 | 423 people |
| 2011 Q4 | 505 people |
| 2012 Q1 | 451 people |
| 2012 Q2 | 542 people |
| 2012 Q3 | 498 people |
| 2012 Q4 | 501 people |
| 2013 Q1 | 583 people |
| 2013 Q2 | 681 people |
| 2013 Q3 | 734 people |
| 2013 Q4 | 690 people |
| 2014 Q1 | 679 people |
| 2014 Q2 | 619 people |
| 2014 Q3 | 571 people |
| 2014 Q4 | 618 people |
| 2015 Q1 | 650 people |
| 2015 Q2 | 605 people |
| 2015 Q3 | 589 people |
| 2015 Q4 | 752 people |
| 2016 Q1 | 470 people |
| 2016 Q2 | 638 people |
| 2016 Q3 | 521 people |
| 2016 Q4 | 595 people |
| 2017 Q1 | 472 people |
| 2017 Q2 | 539 people |
| 2017 Q3 | 556 people |
| 2017 Q4 | 587 people |
| 2018 Q1 | 402 people |
| 2018 Q2 | 459 people |
| 2018 Q3 | 326 people |
| 2018 Q4 | 321 people |
| 2019 Q1 | 350 people |
| 2019 Q2 | 360 people |
| 2019 Q3 | 264 people |
| 2019 Q4 | 282 people |
| 2020 Q1 | 299 people |
| 2020 Q2 | 133 people |
| 2020 Q3 | 108 people |
| 2020 Q4 | 109 people |
| 2021 Q1 | 138 people |
| 2021 Q2 | 153 people |
| 2021 Q3 | 219 people |
| 2021 Q4 | 151 people |
| 2022 Q1 | 210 people |
| 2022 Q2 | 277 people |
| 2022 Q3 | 463 people |
| 2022 Q4 | 353 people |
| 2023 Q1 | 205 people |
| 2023 Q2 | 357 people |
| 2023 Q3 | 363 people |
| 2023 Q4 | 383 people |
| 2024 Q1 | 380 people |
| 2024 Q2 | 348 people |
| 2024 Q3 | 320 people |
| 2024 Q4 | 388 people |
| 2025 Q1 | 452 people |
| 2025 Q2 | 485 people |
| 2025 Q3 | 360 people |
| 2025 Q4 | 366 people |
| 2026 Q1 | 441 people |
| 2026 Q2 | 424 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