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| More Eastern Europeans leaving UK | More Eastern Europeans leaving UK |
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| The number of Eastern Europeans leaving the UK doubled in the year up to September 2008, officials have said. | The number of Eastern Europeans leaving the UK doubled in the year up to September 2008, officials have said. |
| The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that more foreign nationals left during the same 12 months than compared with the previous year. | The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that more foreign nationals left during the same 12 months than compared with the previous year. |
| The population is still growing from migration - but the rate has slowed because of the numbers now leaving. | The population is still growing from migration - but the rate has slowed because of the numbers now leaving. |
| Home Office figures show there was a 27% rise in asylum seekers, but the total is well below record levels. | Home Office figures show there was a 27% rise in asylum seekers, but the total is well below record levels. |
| Over the first three months of 2009, there were 8,380 asylum applications, the highest number since 2004. Including family members, the number of people seeking refuge was 10,285. | |
| While this represents a significant increase, it is below the record levels of approximately 25,000 arrivals every quarter in 2002. | While this represents a significant increase, it is below the record levels of approximately 25,000 arrivals every quarter in 2002. |
| Registered workers | Registered workers |
| The ONS says that over the year to last September, 720,000 National Insurance numbers were issued to foreign nationals - down 7% on the previous year. | |
| The ONS said the "key factor" in the fall in National Insurance registrations was the decline in applications from eight Eastern European nations. | The ONS said the "key factor" in the fall in National Insurance registrations was the decline in applications from eight Eastern European nations. |
| It said that 265,000 of the National Insurance numbers went to these nationals in the year to September - a fall of 71,000 registrations on the previous year. | It said that 265,000 of the National Insurance numbers went to these nationals in the year to September - a fall of 71,000 registrations on the previous year. |
| Over the same period, the government recorded 180,000 Eastern Europeans joining the Worker Registration Scheme, a means of counting their presence in the UK. | Over the same period, the government recorded 180,000 Eastern Europeans joining the Worker Registration Scheme, a means of counting their presence in the UK. |
| That was down from 223,000 registrations between September 2006 and September 2008. | |
| The most recent provisional figures show that registrations are continuing to fall, said the ONS, totalling 133,000 in the year to March 2009. The figures do not include self-employed workers who do not need to register. | |
| Overall, an estimated 469,000 Poles remain the largest single group of foreign passport holders living in the UK - although there are many more people born in India and Pakistan who long ago became British citizens. | |
| Removals and settlements | |
| Separate figures from the Home Office show that almost 16,000 people were removed from the UK in the first three months of 2009 - 6% fewer than in the previous year. The majority of the removals, some 13,000 people, were non-asylum cases. | |
| The number of people granted permanent settlement in the UK, excluding most European nationals, rose by 10% to 44,870 between January and March 2009. | |
| The numbers also reveal a complex picture of internal migration in the UK. | |
| The populations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland rose very slightly over the year to September 2008 - while England's fell. | |
| London lost 56,000 people to other regions - while south-west England gained the most with 23,000 arrivals. |