Net migration means the number of people arriving, minus those leaving. Separate data shows a 7% rise in registrations of overseas workers to 603,000 in the year to March 2014. Official figures show a rise in the arrival of European Union citizens to the UK in the year to December 2013, but net migration remains unchanged. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics said net migration remained at 212,000, unchanged from the previous quarterly figures. Statistically significant The detailed figures show that in the year to December 2013, some 201,000 EU citizens came into the UK as long-term immigrants, something officials said was a statistically significant increase of 43,000 over the previous year. Continue reading the main story Why do people come to the UK? The level of net migration stands at more than twice the government’s target of 100,000 a year.
“And lo and behold, that expectation has not been met because England haven’t done well in a major tournament since. “And the thing that we would say undoubtedly was the bad thing was the IRA bombing of Manchester. And yet its consequences, one would argue, have been fairly good. “Over that summer, the event that we would think was the good thing was Euro ’96,” Bowker reflects.
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