Home Office · length of detention: G: 3 months to less than 4 months
People leaving immigration detention: G: 3 months to less than 4 months
4 periods to 2026 Q2
734 people
People leaving immigration detention for G: 3 months to less than 4 months totalled 734 people in the 4 periods to 2026 Q2, down 6.1% (48) on the 4 periods before.
- Home Office dataset
- Data_Det_D03
- all rows; Length of detention=G: 3 months to less than 4 months
- column “Leaving”
- sum of 111 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 | 243 people |
| 2010 Q2 | 218 people |
| 2010 Q3 | 216 people |
| 2010 Q4 | 225 people |
| 2011 Q1 | 226 people |
| 2011 Q2 | 227 people |
| 2011 Q3 | 232 people |
| 2011 Q4 | 235 people |
| 2012 Q1 | 275 people |
| 2012 Q2 | 278 people |
| 2012 Q3 | 234 people |
| 2012 Q4 | 272 people |
| 2013 Q1 | 330 people |
| 2013 Q2 | 294 people |
| 2013 Q3 | 308 people |
| 2013 Q4 | 361 people |
| 2014 Q1 | 373 people |
| 2014 Q2 | 326 people |
| 2014 Q3 | 315 people |
| 2014 Q4 | 288 people |
| 2015 Q1 | 396 people |
| 2015 Q2 | 347 people |
| 2015 Q3 | 310 people |
| 2015 Q4 | 374 people |
| 2016 Q1 | 285 people |
| 2016 Q2 | 270 people |
| 2016 Q3 | 223 people |
| 2016 Q4 | 260 people |
| 2017 Q1 | 290 people |
| 2017 Q2 | 234 people |
| 2017 Q3 | 270 people |
| 2017 Q4 | 356 people |
| 2018 Q1 | 284 people |
| 2018 Q2 | 265 people |
| 2018 Q3 | 186 people |
| 2018 Q4 | 158 people |
| 2019 Q1 | 186 people |
| 2019 Q2 | 157 people |
| 2019 Q3 | 129 people |
| 2019 Q4 | 141 people |
| 2020 Q1 | 134 people |
| 2020 Q2 | 102 people |
| 2020 Q3 | 71 people |
| 2020 Q4 | 67 people |
| 2021 Q1 | 93 people |
| 2021 Q2 | 79 people |
| 2021 Q3 | 110 people |
| 2021 Q4 | 118 people |
| 2022 Q1 | 126 people |
| 2022 Q2 | 142 people |
| 2022 Q3 | 170 people |
| 2022 Q4 | 161 people |
| 2023 Q1 | 115 people |
| 2023 Q2 | 184 people |
| 2023 Q3 | 184 people |
| 2023 Q4 | 189 people |
| 2024 Q1 | 183 people |
| 2024 Q2 | 197 people |
| 2024 Q3 | 176 people |
| 2024 Q4 | 179 people |
| 2025 Q1 | 217 people |
| 2025 Q2 | 210 people |
| 2025 Q3 | 176 people |
| 2025 Q4 | 173 people |
| 2026 Q1 | 208 people |
| 2026 Q2 | 177 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