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The latest detention figures are out today and can be explored here👇.

Headline points are:

In the year to June 2021, 17,088 people entered immigration detention in the UK, 11 per cent fewer than in the previous year.

gov.uk/government/sta…
Numbers entering detention fell sharply throughout the pandemic, but the number of people entering detention in the second quarter of 2021 (April to June) was comparable to pre-pandemic levels - 5,878, compared to 5,792 in Q2 2019.

The return of business as usual?
At the end of June 2021, there were 1,550 people in immigration detention - more than double the number at the end of June 2020 (698) when the impact of the pandemic on numbers was most pronounced, but 5% fewer than at the end of December 2019 (1,637).
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