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Home Office · Immigration system statistics: immigration detention detailed datasets

Entries to immigration detention by nationality

2026 Q2 Provisional

4,897entries

Entries to immigration detention by nationality were 4,897 entries in 2026 Q2, down 11.1% (609) from 5,506 in 2025 Q2.

▼ 11.1% · −609 against 2025 Q2 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. 2026 Q2
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Det_D01
  5. row “all rows”
  6. column “Entering”
  7. cell value sum of 1085 rows

The series is falling. Rule: down 11.1% from 2025 Q2 to 2026 Q2.

2010 Q1 to 2026 Q2

Entries to immigration detention by nationality: 2010 Q1 to 2026 Q2LabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour03k5k8k20102015202020252010 Q1: 6,880 entries · published 27 August 20262010 Q2: 6,092 entries · published 27 August 20262010 Q3: 6,771 entries · published 27 August 20262010 Q4: 6,161 entries · published 27 August 20262011 Q1: 7,009 entries · published 27 August 20262011 Q2: 6,360 entries · published 27 August 20262011 Q3: 6,833 entries · published 27 August 20262011 Q4: 6,887 entries · published 27 August 20262012 Q1: 7,514 entries · published 27 August 20262012 Q2: 7,005 entries · published 27 August 20262012 Q3: 7,296 entries · published 27 August 20262012 Q4: 7,090 entries · published 27 August 20262013 Q1: 7,341 entries · published 27 August 20262013 Q2: 7,981 entries · published 27 August 20262013 Q3: 7,972 entries · published 27 August 20262013 Q4: 7,124 entries · published 27 August 20262014 Q1: 7,031 entries · published 27 August 20262014 Q2: 6,995 entries · published 27 August 20262014 Q3: 8,341 entries · published 27 August 20262014 Q4: 7,997 entries · published 27 August 20262015 Q1: 7,569 entries · published 27 August 20262015 Q2: 8,146 entries · published 27 August 20262015 Q3: 9,030 entries · published 27 August 20262015 Q4: 7,702 entries · published 27 August 20262016 Q1: 7,283 entries · published 27 August 20262016 Q2: 7,578 entries · published 27 August 20262016 Q3: 7,195 entries · published 27 August 20262016 Q4: 6,847 entries · published 27 August 20262017 Q1: 7,356 entries · published 27 August 20262017 Q2: 6,419 entries · published 27 August 20262017 Q3: 6,945 entries · published 27 August 20262017 Q4: 6,628 entries · published 27 August 20262018 Q1: 6,588 entries · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 6,071 entries · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 5,795 entries · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 6,319 entries · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 6,164 entries · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 5,792 entries · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 6,193 entries · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 6,331 entries · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 4,802 entries · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 1,834 entries · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 4,314 entries · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 3,917 entries · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 3,001 entries · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 5,908 entries · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 8,628 entries · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 7,101 entries · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 3,910 entries · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 4,686 entries · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 7,939 entries · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 4,338 entries · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 4,161 entries · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 4,974 entries · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 4,619 entries · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 4,644 entries · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 4,828 entries · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 4,910 entries · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 5,064 entries · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 5,972 entries · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 5,133 entries · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 5,506 entries · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 6,086 entries · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 6,347 entries · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 4,707 entries · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 4,897 entries · published 27 August 2026
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What this measures

The number of times people entered immigration detention in each quarter, split by nationality. Entries count occurrences, not individuals.

What this doesn’t measure

The number of distinct people detained, how long they were held, or people in detention at a point in time.

Important caveat

Entries to detention count occurrences, not individuals: a person detained twice in a quarter is counted twice. Nationality is as recorded by the Home Office. People held in prisons under immigration powers are included only from 2017. Data from 2026 Q1 onwards is provisional.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Home Office
Publication
Immigration system statistics: immigration detention detailed datasets
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026
Source file
immigration-detention-datasets-jun-2026.xlsx
File SHA-256
51b4d9100ad36864bec21ce0eb9467839518ebaedfa0da128b52f8a7603634bd
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
Data_Det_D01
Table
Det_D01
Row
all rows
Column
Entering
Cell value
sum of 1085 rows
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
entries
API
/api/metrics/detention_entries_by_nationality · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–4,9102024 Q24,8972026 Q2↓ 0.3%
Conservative 2019–20246,1932019 Q34,9102024 Q2↓ 20.7%
Conservative 2017–20197,3562017 Q16,1932019 Q3↓ 15.8%
Conservative 2015–20177,5692015 Q17,3562017 Q1↓ 2.8%
Coalition 2010–20156,8802010 Q17,5692015 Q1↑ 10.0%

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Release
Year ending June 2026 · publication page
Last updated
27 August 2026
Next scheduled release
26 November 2026 (official date)