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Home Office · Immigration system statistics: foreign national offender and asylum-related returns datasets

Asylum-related returns by type

2026 Q2 Provisional

3,206returns

Asylum-related returns by type were 3,206 returns in 2026 Q2, up 5.4% (165) from 3,041 in 2025 Q2.

▲ 5.4% · +165 against 2025 Q2 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. 2026 Q2
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Ret_D05
  5. row “all rows”
  6. column “Number of asylum-related returns”
  7. cell value sum of 201 rows

The latest figure sits in the top tenth of the 66 values published here. Rule: only 2 of the 66 published values are higher.

2010 Q1 to 2026 Q2

Asylum-related returns by type: 2010 Q1 to 2026 Q2LabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour01k2k3k2010201520202025Coalition; austerity beginsEU referendumUK leaves the EUFirst COVID lockdownRussia invades Ukraine2010 Q1: 3,035 returns · published 27 August 20262010 Q2: 2,582 returns · published 27 August 20262010 Q3: 2,679 returns · published 27 August 20262010 Q4: 2,367 returns · published 27 August 20262011 Q1: 2,673 returns · published 27 August 20262011 Q2: 2,036 returns · published 27 August 20262011 Q3: 2,532 returns · published 27 August 20262011 Q4: 3,248 returns · published 27 August 20262012 Q1: 2,582 returns · published 27 August 20262012 Q2: 2,256 returns · published 27 August 20262012 Q3: 2,103 returns · published 27 August 20262012 Q4: 2,189 returns · published 27 August 20262013 Q1: 2,435 returns · published 27 August 20262013 Q2: 2,394 returns · published 27 August 20262013 Q3: 2,178 returns · published 27 August 20262013 Q4: 2,081 returns · published 27 August 20262014 Q1: 2,026 returns · published 27 August 20262014 Q2: 1,820 returns · published 27 August 20262014 Q3: 1,662 returns · published 27 August 20262014 Q4: 1,543 returns · published 27 August 20262015 Q1: 1,563 returns · published 27 August 20262015 Q2: 1,491 returns · published 27 August 20262015 Q3: 1,392 returns · published 27 August 20262015 Q4: 1,417 returns · published 27 August 20262016 Q1: 1,312 returns · published 27 August 20262016 Q2: 1,307 returns · published 27 August 20262016 Q3: 1,291 returns · published 27 August 20262016 Q4: 1,355 returns · published 27 August 20262017 Q1: 1,448 returns · published 27 August 20262017 Q2: 1,316 returns · published 27 August 20262017 Q3: 1,338 returns · published 27 August 20262017 Q4: 1,244 returns · published 27 August 20262018 Q1: 1,276 returns · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 1,027 returns · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 967 returns · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 862 returns · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 1,014 returns · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 794 returns · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 745 returns · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 779 returns · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 725 returns · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 123 returns · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 369 returns · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 430 returns · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 242 returns · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 420 returns · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 462 returns · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 504 returns · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 621 returns · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 668 returns · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 771 returns · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 904 returns · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 1,184 returns · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 1,758 returns · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 1,788 returns · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 1,989 returns · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 2,165 returns · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 2,278 returns · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 2,555 returns · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 2,750 returns · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 2,901 returns · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 3,041 returns · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 3,178 returns · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 3,461 returns · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 2,918 returns · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 3,206 returns · published 27 August 2026
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The chart as a table
PeriodAsylum-related returns by type
2010 Q13,035 returns
2010 Q22,582 returns
2010 Q32,679 returns
2010 Q42,367 returns
2011 Q12,673 returns
2011 Q22,036 returns
2011 Q32,532 returns
2011 Q43,248 returns
2012 Q12,582 returns
2012 Q22,256 returns
2012 Q32,103 returns
2012 Q42,189 returns
2013 Q12,435 returns
2013 Q22,394 returns
2013 Q32,178 returns
2013 Q42,081 returns
2014 Q12,026 returns
2014 Q21,820 returns
2014 Q31,662 returns
2014 Q41,543 returns
2015 Q11,563 returns
2015 Q21,491 returns
2015 Q31,392 returns
2015 Q41,417 returns
2016 Q11,312 returns
2016 Q21,307 returns
2016 Q31,291 returns
2016 Q41,355 returns
2017 Q11,448 returns
2017 Q21,316 returns
2017 Q31,338 returns
2017 Q41,244 returns
2018 Q11,276 returns
2018 Q21,027 returns
2018 Q3967 returns
2018 Q4862 returns
2019 Q11,014 returns
2019 Q2794 returns
2019 Q3745 returns
2019 Q4779 returns
2020 Q1725 returns
2020 Q2123 returns
2020 Q3369 returns
2020 Q4430 returns
2021 Q1242 returns
2021 Q2420 returns
2021 Q3462 returns
2021 Q4504 returns
2022 Q1621 returns
2022 Q2668 returns
2022 Q3771 returns
2022 Q4904 returns
2023 Q11,184 returns
2023 Q21,758 returns
2023 Q31,788 returns
2023 Q41,989 returns
2024 Q12,165 returns
2024 Q22,278 returns
2024 Q32,555 returns
2024 Q42,750 returns
2025 Q12,901 returns
2025 Q23,041 returns
2025 Q33,178 returns
2025 Q43,461 returns
2026 Q12,918 returns
2026 Q23,206 returns

What this measures

The number of asylum-related returns from the UK in each quarter, split by type — enforced return, voluntary return, or refused entry at port and subsequently departed.

What this doesn’t measure

Returns of people with no asylum history, or what share of refused asylum seekers are returned — refusals and returns in a quarter concern different people.

Important caveat

Returns summed from the Home Office detailed dataset. Enforced and voluntary returns exclude people refused entry at port who subsequently departed; the destination-group breakdown covers all three return type groups. Figures for the most recent seven quarters are provisional and voluntary returns in particular are revised upwards as departures are identified later. Destination labels are kept exactly as published, so "Home country" and "Home Country" are separate values in older data.

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: foreign national offender and asylum-related returns datasets
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026
Source file
ret.xlsx
File SHA-256
7c16d6e2a68ff4866562cde5e96a719013995ca45165c1ff3c547f795ab85e3f
Retrieved
4 September 2026
Sheet
Data_Ret_D05
Table
Ret_D05
Row
all rows
Column
Number of asylum-related returns
Cell value
sum of 201 rows
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
returns
API
/api/metrics/asylum_related_returns_by_type · /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 2024–2,2782024 Q23,2062026 Q2↑ 40.7%
Conservative 2019–20247452019 Q32,2782024 Q2↑ 205.8%
Conservative 2017–20191,4482017 Q17452019 Q3↓ 48.5%
Conservative 2015–20171,5632015 Q11,4482017 Q1↓ 7.4%
Coalition 2010–20153,0352010 Q11,5632015 Q1↓ 48.5%

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