# Returns and deportations: key figures

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- **39,371** Total returns in 2025 (enforced + voluntary). Source: Home Office, Immigration System Statistics, returns summary tables, calendar year 2025.
- **9,912** Enforced returns in 2025, the highest since 2017 (11,741). Source: Home Office, Immigration System Statistics, returns summary tables, calendar year 2025.
- **29,459** Voluntary returns in 2025. Source: Home Office, Immigration System Statistics, returns summary tables, calendar year 2025.
- **18,308** Refused entry at port and subsequently departed in 2025 (counted separately). Source: Home Office, Immigration System Statistics, returns summary tables, calendar year 2025.
- **5,683** Foreign national offenders returned in 2025. Source: Home Office, Immigration System Statistics, returns summary tables, calendar year 2025.
- **10,361** Foreign nationals in UK prisons (2025). Source: Ministry of Justice, Offender Management Statistics.

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