24.11.2011: Migration Statistics Quarterly Report November 2011 – Statistical Bulletin – Excerpts relating to Poland

24.11.2011:  Migration Statistics Quarterly Report November 2011 – Statistical Bulletin http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/migration-statistics-quarterly-report/november-2011/msqr.html
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_242548.pdf

Population by Country of Birth and Nationality April 2010 to March 2011
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-235204

Tables 2.1 and 2.2 use nationality groupings, table 2.3 presents the 60 most common nationalities in the UK and table 2.4 the five most common nationalities in the countries of the UK and UK areas.

Net migration of citizens of A8 countries has increased to 49,000 in 2010, from 16,000 in 2009.
This is due to both a rise in immigration from 68,000 to 86,000; and a fall in emigration from
52,000 to 37,000.

181,000 NINos were allocated to A8 nationals in the year to June 2011, an increase of 15 per
cent on the year to June 2010

In the year to March 2011, the most common non-British nationality was Polish (576,000 residents).
This compares to 531,000 in the year ending March 2010

Figure 1.3: UK residents by non-UK country of birth and by non-British country of nationality:
estimates for year to March 2011; top five (including 95 per cent confidence intervals

Non-UK country of birth (Estimate)  – Poland  550, Cl 32
Non-British country of nationality (Estimate) – Poland 576. Cl 33

2.2 A8 citizens
In May 2004, eight central and eastern European countries (referred to as A8 or EU Accession
countries) joined the EU with rights to work in the UK. The estimated number of citizens from these
countries immigrating long-term to the UK in the year to March 2011 was 69,000, not significantly
different from the estimate of 58,000 in the year to March 2010.  The estimated number of A8
citizens emigrating from the UK in the year to March 2011 was 32,000, a decline of 30 per cent on
the estimate of 46,000 in the year to March 2010 (Figure 2.2).

The proportion of NINos allocated to EU accession nationals (that is those of all 12 EU accession
countries – see Glossary) in the year to June 2011 is 32 per cent. Accession nationals accounted
for 46 per cent of all allocations to adult overseas nationals when the figures peaked in the year to
December 2007. (Figure 2.4)
International Passenger Survey estimates show that immigrants arrive to the UK from many different
countries. The top five countries of origin for 2010 are India (11.9 per cent of all immigrants),
Pakistan (5.8 per cent), Poland (5.4 per cent), Australia (5.2 per cent) and China (5.2 per cent)

Figure 4.2 Immigration from most common countries of last residence for 2010, shown for
2006 – 2011 – Poland

4.3 Where do emigrants from the UK intend to live?
Poland was the second most common destination in 2008 at 50,000, but now shares
third place with France with 18,000 emigrants leaving the UK in 2010 (Figure 4.3).

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