24.02.2011: Polish people in the UK – Half a million Polish-born residents : Migration Statistics Quarterly Report – No 8: February 2011 – Excerpts relating to Poland

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Office for National Statistics: Polish people in the UK – Half a million Polish-born residents – 24 February 2011
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=2369&Pos=1&ColRank=2&Rank=320

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Migration Statistics Quarterly Report – No 8: February 2011 -  Excerpts relating to Poland

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/mig0211.pdf

“161,000 NINos were allocated to A8 nationals in the year to September 2010, a fall of 8 per cent on the year to September 2009. In the year to December 2010 the number of A8 nationals successfully applying to work as an employee in the UK via the Worker Registration Scheme (WRS) was 117,000, an increase of 7 per cent on the year to December 2009 (109,000)”
 
“The estimated number of citizens of the A8 countries immigrating long term to the UK in the year to June 2010 was 57,000, not statistically significantly different from the estimate of 68,000 in the year to June 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 June 2010 was 40,000, also not statistically significantly different from the estimate of 57,000 in the year to June 2009.”

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“The proportion of NINos allocated to Accession nationals (ie those of all 12 Accession countries –see Glossary) is 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.”

“There were 117,000 successful applications to the WRS in the year to December 2010, an increase of 7 per cent on the figure of 109,000 in the year to December 2009. Since the 12 months to June 2009 the fall in approved applicants has levelled out and the number in each rolling 12 month period has been in the range 109,000 to 119,000.”

“In the year to December 2010 the number of approved WRS initial applicants from Poland fell to 52,000, from 56,000 in the year to December 2009. However, applicants from Latvia increased to 18,000 in the year to December 2010 from 16,000 in the year to December 2009, and applicants from Lithuania increased to 24,000 in the year to December 2010 from 15,000 in the year to December 2009. Overall, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania were the three largest source countries of approved WRS applicants in the year to December 2010, comprising 81 per cent of all approvals.”

“In the year to June 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 520,000

UK residents by non-British country of nationality – 541,000

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