25.11.2010: Migration Statistics Quarterly Report – No 7: November 2010 – Excerpts relating to Poland
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/mig1110.pdf
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“157,000 NINos were allocated to A8 nationals in the year to June 2010, a fall of 16 per cent on the year to June 2010. In the year to September 2010 the number of A8 nationals successfully applying to work as an employee in the UK via the Worker Registration Scheme (WRS) was 111,000, an increase of 2 per cent on the year to September 2009 (109,000)”
“The estimated number of citizens of the A8 countries immigrating long term to the UK in the year to March 2010 was 58,000, not statistically significantly different from the estimate of 78,000 in the year to March 2009 (note that the small number of A8 migrants in the IPS sample means that a change must be large for it to have sufficient certainty to be regarded as statistically significant). The estimated number of A8 citizens emigrating from the UK in the year to March 2010 was 46,000, also not statistically significantly different from the estimate of 64,000 in the year to March 2009.”
“The proportion of NINos allocated to Accession nationals (ie those of all 12 Accession countries – see Glossary) is also falling. Accession nationals accounted for 46 per cent of all allocations to adult overseas nationals when the figures peaked in the year to December 2007, but this figure has now fallen to 31 per cent, which is the lowest figure since the year to March 2005. ”
“In the year to September 2010 the number of approved WRS initial applicants from Poland fell to 50,000, from 60,000 in the year to September 2009. However, applicants from Latvia increased to 19,000 in the year to September 2010 from 12,000 in the year to September 2009, and applicants from Lithuania increased to 21,000 in the year to September 2010 from 13,000 in the year to September 2009. Overall, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania were the three largest source countries of approved WRS applicants in the year to September 2010, comprising 81 per cent of all approvals.”
“In the year to March 2010 India was the most common country of birth for UK residents born outside the UK, and Polish was the most common non-British nationality”
UK residents by non-UK country of birth – Poland 515,000
UK residents by non-British country of nationality – 531,000