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The UK issued National Insurance numbers to 713,000 overseas nationals in the year to April 2007.The UK issued National Insurance numbers to 713,000 overseas nationals in the year to April 2007.
That number - which includes those who may only be in the UK for a short time - is more than twice the amount issued to non-UK nationals four years earlier. That number - which includes those who may be in the UK only for a short time - is more than twice the amount issued to non-UK nationals four years earlier.
The figures include self-employed people as well as the employed workers who are counted in other surveys.The figures include self-employed people as well as the employed workers who are counted in other surveys.
They show the number of people working in the UK for the first time from the new EU counties rose to 321,000.They show the number of people working in the UK for the first time from the new EU counties rose to 321,000.