Shoplifting continues to increase at an unacceptable level, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job.<\/p>
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The Home Office publishes data on escapes from immigration detention in the \u2018Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release<\/a>\u2019. Data on escapes from detention centres and absconds from escort is published by year in table Det_05a of the \u2018Detention summary tables<\/a>\u2019. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the \u2018Notes\u2019 page of the workbook. The published data covers the period from 2017 to 2023. Data prior to 2017 is not published. Data for the year 2024 is due to be published in the August 2025 edition of the publication.<\/p>"}
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