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Home Office · Immigration system statistics: returns summary tables

Voluntary returns

Year ending June 2026 Provisional

30,936returns

Voluntary returns were 30,936 returns in the year ending June 2026, up 8.9% (2,529) from 28,407 in the year ending June 2025.

▲ 8.9% · +2,529 against Year ending June 2025 (year on year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. Year ending June 2026
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Ret_01
  5. row “year ending June 2026 [p]”
  6. column “Voluntary returns, total”
  7. cell value 30936

The series is near its highest recorded level. Rule: within 5% of the highest value in the 24 periods published here.

2004 to Year ending June 2026

Voluntary returns: 2004 to Year ending June 2026LabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour010k20k30k200520102015202020252004: 3,566 returns · published 27 August 20262005: 7,601 returns · published 27 August 20262006: 12,599 returns · published 27 August 20262007: 20,453 returns · published 27 August 20262008: 24,356 returns · published 27 August 20262009: 29,765 returns · published 27 August 20262010: 31,762 returns · published 27 August 20262011: 30,088 returns · published 27 August 20262012: 31,002 returns · published 27 August 20262013: 31,694 returns · published 27 August 20262014: 27,815 returns · published 27 August 20262015: 30,210 returns · published 27 August 20262016: 28,474 returns · published 27 August 20262017: 20,979 returns · published 27 August 20262018: 15,702 returns · published 27 August 20262019: 12,574 returns · published 27 August 20262020: 5,009 returns · published 27 August 20262021: 7,352 returns · published 27 August 20262022: 11,014 returns · published 27 August 20262023: 20,475 returns · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2025: 28,407 returns · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2026: 30,936 returns · published 27 August 2026
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Breakdowns

What this measures

The number of voluntary returns from the UK in a 12-month period, comprising assisted returns, controlled returns and other verified returns identified after departure.

What this doesn’t measure

Enforced returns, people refused entry at port, or people who left without the Home Office identifying their departure.

Important caveat

Returns figures for the most recent seven quarters are provisional, marked "[p]" in the source table, and are revised in later publications. Other verified voluntary returns in particular are revised upwards as departures are identified in later data matching, so recent voluntary return totals will rise. Enforced and voluntary returns exclude people refused entry at port who subsequently departed, which the Home Office publishes as a separate category.

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: returns summary tables
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026
Source file
returns-summary-jun-2026-tables.ods
File SHA-256
492cdea2ace7b240a715eab22aee43ef6ab7519d01a30fe1e95c0e6022416987
Retrieved
4 September 2026
Sheet
Ret_01
Table
Ret_01
Row
year ending June 2026 [p]
Column
Voluntary returns, total
Cell value
30936
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
returns
API
/api/metrics/voluntary_returns · /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 2024–20,475202330,936Year ending June 2026↑ 51.1%
Conservative 2019–202415,702201820,4752023↑ 30.4%
Conservative 2017–201928,474201615,7022018↓ 44.9%
Conservative 2015–201727,815201428,4742016↑ 2.4%
Coalition 2010–201529,765200927,8152014↓ 6.6%
Labour 2005–20103,566200429,7652009↑ 734.7%

Full comparison with chart

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