Civometry

Home Office · length of detention: B: 4 days to 1 week

People leaving immigration detention: B: 4 days to 1 week

4 periods to 2026 Q2

2,061 people

People leaving immigration detention for B: 4 days to 1 week totalled 2,061 people in the 4 periods to 2026 Q2, down 5.8% (127) on the 4 periods before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. Data_Det_D03
  3. all rows; Length of detention=B: 4 days to 1 week
  4. column “Leaving”
  5. sum of 113 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 Q2LabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour01k2k3k20102015202020252010 Q1: 900 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q2: 758 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q3: 986 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q4: 958 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q1: 1,052 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q2: 889 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q3: 978 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q4: 1,022 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q1: 1,039 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q2: 918 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q3: 978 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q4: 995 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q1: 779 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q2: 825 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q3: 652 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q4: 627 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q1: 517 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q2: 659 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q3: 640 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q4: 646 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q1: 427 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q2: 537 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q3: 752 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q4: 733 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q1: 547 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q2: 493 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q3: 653 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q4: 596 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q1: 616 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q2: 516 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q3: 352 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q4: 461 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q1: 463 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 436 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 447 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 450 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 451 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 406 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 500 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 548 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 529 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 295 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 1,408 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 1,160 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 941 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 2,566 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 3,847 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 3,188 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 679 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 715 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 1,914 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 887 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 291 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 248 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 262 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 468 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 397 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 415 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 513 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 639 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 484 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 552 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 739 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 685 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 344 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 293 people · published 27 August 2026
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The chart as a table
PeriodPeople leaving immigration detention by length of detention
2010 Q1900 people
2010 Q2758 people
2010 Q3986 people
2010 Q4958 people
2011 Q11,052 people
2011 Q2889 people
2011 Q3978 people
2011 Q41,022 people
2012 Q11,039 people
2012 Q2918 people
2012 Q3978 people
2012 Q4995 people
2013 Q1779 people
2013 Q2825 people
2013 Q3652 people
2013 Q4627 people
2014 Q1517 people
2014 Q2659 people
2014 Q3640 people
2014 Q4646 people
2015 Q1427 people
2015 Q2537 people
2015 Q3752 people
2015 Q4733 people
2016 Q1547 people
2016 Q2493 people
2016 Q3653 people
2016 Q4596 people
2017 Q1616 people
2017 Q2516 people
2017 Q3352 people
2017 Q4461 people
2018 Q1463 people
2018 Q2436 people
2018 Q3447 people
2018 Q4450 people
2019 Q1451 people
2019 Q2406 people
2019 Q3500 people
2019 Q4548 people
2020 Q1529 people
2020 Q2295 people
2020 Q31,408 people
2020 Q41,160 people
2021 Q1941 people
2021 Q22,566 people
2021 Q33,847 people
2021 Q43,188 people
2022 Q1679 people
2022 Q2715 people
2022 Q31,914 people
2022 Q4887 people
2023 Q1291 people
2023 Q2248 people
2023 Q3262 people
2023 Q4468 people
2024 Q1397 people
2024 Q2415 people
2024 Q3513 people
2024 Q4639 people
2025 Q1484 people
2025 Q2552 people
2025 Q3739 people
2025 Q4685 people
2026 Q1344 people
2026 Q2293 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