UK Immigration Statistics on Removals and Voluntary Departures

A Home Office release from 2026-07-08 provides statistics on individuals removed from or voluntarily departing the UK. The data includes total numbers of people, covering actions by the UK Border Agency such as placing individuals on return flights. It replaces previous annual and quarterly publications following a public consultation.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in immigration enforcement actions based on total numbers of people removed.
• Model policy impacts based on the reported categories of removals and voluntary departures.
• Benchmark UK Border Agency operational metrics based on the included 'departing' statistics.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Home Office organization.
• Data is current, with a last update timestamp of 2026-07-08 13:32:35.856158.
• Released under the open OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Home Office

Collection Method

Administrative records from UK Border Agency actions.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:35.856158; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom