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| 713,000 new foreign workers in UK | 713,000 new foreign workers in UK |
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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 be in the UK only 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. |
| The number working in the UK for the first time from new EU counties rose to 321,000 from 277,000 a year earlier. | |
| The Department for Work and Pensions figures show 583,000 of the new National Insurance numbers were for people under the age of 35. There were 54% men and 46% women. | |
| National Insurance numbers are needed by anyone of working age who wants to work legally in the UK. The figures do not include dependents such as children. | |
| The figures also do not mean that there are now 713,000 more foreign workers in the UK than a year earlier, as the figures do not count those who leave the UK. |