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

Foreign national offender returns

2026 Q2 Provisional

1,382returns

Foreign national offender returns were 1,382 returns in 2026 Q2, up 0.9% (13) from 1,369 in 2025 Q2.

▲ 0.9% · +13 against 2025 Q2 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. 2026 Q2
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Ret_D03
  5. row “all rows”
  6. column “Number of foreign national offender returns”
  7. cell value sum of 129 rows

2010 Q1 to 2026 Q2

Foreign national offender returns: 2010 Q1 to 2026 Q2LabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour05001k2k2010201520202025Coalition; austerity beginsEU referendumUK leaves the EUFirst COVID lockdownRussia invades Ukraine2010 Q1: 1,348 returns · published 27 August 20262010 Q2: 1,272 returns · published 27 August 20262010 Q3: 1,427 returns · published 27 August 20262010 Q4: 1,336 returns · published 27 August 20262011 Q1: 1,382 returns · published 27 August 20262011 Q2: 1,077 returns · published 27 August 20262011 Q3: 1,155 returns · published 27 August 20262011 Q4: 1,147 returns · published 27 August 20262012 Q1: 1,283 returns · published 27 August 20262012 Q2: 1,150 returns · published 27 August 20262012 Q3: 1,161 returns · published 27 August 20262012 Q4: 1,251 returns · published 27 August 20262013 Q1: 1,241 returns · published 27 August 20262013 Q2: 1,290 returns · published 27 August 20262013 Q3: 1,236 returns · published 27 August 20262013 Q4: 1,286 returns · published 27 August 20262014 Q1: 1,357 returns · published 27 August 20262014 Q2: 1,312 returns · published 27 August 20262014 Q3: 1,282 returns · published 27 August 20262014 Q4: 1,444 returns · published 27 August 20262015 Q1: 1,415 returns · published 27 August 20262015 Q2: 1,543 returns · published 27 August 20262015 Q3: 1,543 returns · published 27 August 20262015 Q4: 1,523 returns · published 27 August 20262016 Q1: 1,512 returns · published 27 August 20262016 Q2: 1,766 returns · published 27 August 20262016 Q3: 1,591 returns · published 27 August 20262016 Q4: 1,568 returns · published 27 August 20262017 Q1: 1,703 returns · published 27 August 20262017 Q2: 1,611 returns · published 27 August 20262017 Q3: 1,475 returns · published 27 August 20262017 Q4: 1,503 returns · published 27 August 20262018 Q1: 1,557 returns · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 1,430 returns · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 1,275 returns · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 1,256 returns · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 1,312 returns · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 1,338 returns · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 1,220 returns · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 1,258 returns · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 997 returns · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 372 returns · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 811 returns · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 764 returns · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 441 returns · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 844 returns · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 731 returns · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 690 returns · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 799 returns · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 689 returns · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 806 returns · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 770 returns · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 873 returns · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 1,017 returns · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 1,016 returns · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 1,137 returns · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 1,116 returns · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 1,256 returns · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 1,308 returns · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 1,417 returns · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 1,239 returns · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 1,369 returns · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 1,395 returns · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 1,729 returns · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 1,456 returns · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 1,382 returns · published 27 August 2026
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The chart as a table
PeriodForeign national offender returns
2010 Q11,348 returns
2010 Q21,272 returns
2010 Q31,427 returns
2010 Q41,336 returns
2011 Q11,382 returns
2011 Q21,077 returns
2011 Q31,155 returns
2011 Q41,147 returns
2012 Q11,283 returns
2012 Q21,150 returns
2012 Q31,161 returns
2012 Q41,251 returns
2013 Q11,241 returns
2013 Q21,290 returns
2013 Q31,236 returns
2013 Q41,286 returns
2014 Q11,357 returns
2014 Q21,312 returns
2014 Q31,282 returns
2014 Q41,444 returns
2015 Q11,415 returns
2015 Q21,543 returns
2015 Q31,543 returns
2015 Q41,523 returns
2016 Q11,512 returns
2016 Q21,766 returns
2016 Q31,591 returns
2016 Q41,568 returns
2017 Q11,703 returns
2017 Q21,611 returns
2017 Q31,475 returns
2017 Q41,503 returns
2018 Q11,557 returns
2018 Q21,430 returns
2018 Q31,275 returns
2018 Q41,256 returns
2019 Q11,312 returns
2019 Q21,338 returns
2019 Q31,220 returns
2019 Q41,258 returns
2020 Q1997 returns
2020 Q2372 returns
2020 Q3811 returns
2020 Q4764 returns
2021 Q1441 returns
2021 Q2844 returns
2021 Q3731 returns
2021 Q4690 returns
2022 Q1799 returns
2022 Q2689 returns
2022 Q3806 returns
2022 Q4770 returns
2023 Q1873 returns
2023 Q21,017 returns
2023 Q31,016 returns
2023 Q41,137 returns
2024 Q11,116 returns
2024 Q21,256 returns
2024 Q31,308 returns
2024 Q41,417 returns
2025 Q11,239 returns
2025 Q21,369 returns
2025 Q31,395 returns
2025 Q41,729 returns
2026 Q11,456 returns
2026 Q21,382 returns

Breakdowns

What this measures

The number of returns from the UK of foreign national offenders — people subject to deportation action because of a criminal conviction — in each quarter.

What this doesn’t measure

The number of foreign national offenders in the UK or in prison, people deported for non-criminal reasons, or whether the return was enforced or voluntary.

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_D03
Table
Ret_D03
Row
all rows
Column
Number of foreign national offender returns
Cell value
sum of 129 rows
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
returns
API
/api/metrics/fno_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 2024–1,2562024 Q21,3822026 Q2↑ 10.0%
Conservative 2019–20241,2202019 Q31,2562024 Q2↑ 3.0%
Conservative 2017–20191,7032017 Q11,2202019 Q3↓ 28.4%
Conservative 2015–20171,4152015 Q11,7032017 Q1↑ 20.4%
Coalition 2010–20151,3482010 Q11,4152015 Q1↑ 5.0%

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