UK: Net migration falls to 248,000 in 2016
UK: Net migration falls to 248,000 in 2016: According to the Office for National Statistics the said change was driven by “a statistically significant” increase of 40,000 people leaving the country. The people leaving the country were mostly EU citizens approximately 117,000 emigrated, up 31,000 from 2015.
Net migration is the difference between people who are coming to the UK for more than a year, and the number of people that are leaving the UK for a year or more. The ONS report for 2016 includes the data for six months following the EU referendum.
The figures for this year estimated immigration at 588,000, with emigration of 339,000. The difference between the two gives the total for net migration. In 2016, the total number of people moving to the UK was made up of 264,000 non-EU citizens, 250,000 EU citizens and 74,000 British citizens.
These ONS figures will be the last official migration data which will be given before next month’s general election. The Conservatives’ have claimed since 2010 to reduce the net migration to “the tens of thousands“.
Labour in its manifesto has said that it was offering “fair rules and reasonable management of migration” but had dismissed targets as “bogus.”
These latest figures give the fullest picture of immigration yet around the EU referendum vote last year.
Britain’s settlement after its departure from the bloc is expected to include restrictions on free movement rules. Although precise arrangements for post Brexit immigration are yet to be cleared out.
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