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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 number working in the UK for the first time from new EU counties rose to 321,000 from 277,000 a year earlier. |
| WHERE WORKERS ARE FROM New EU countries: 321,00Asia & Mid-East: 145,000Old EU countries: 103,000Africa: 61,000Aus & Oceania: 33,000 The Americas: 32,000Non-EU Europe: 16,000 Source: DWP figures on those registering for a National Insurance number in year to April 2007 | |
| Nearly a quarter of a million Polish people were given National Insurance number for the first time in 2006/7. | Nearly a quarter of a million Polish people were given National Insurance number for the first time in 2006/7. |
| The Department for Work and Pensions figures show 583,000 of all the new National Insurance numbers were for people under the age of 35, with 35,000 more men than women. | The Department for Work and Pensions figures show 583,000 of all the new National Insurance numbers were for people under the age of 35, with 35,000 more men than 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. | 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. | 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. |
| The numbers of National Insurance numbers allocated to overseas nationals has increased from 349,000 in the year to April 2003. | |
| In that year the largest place of origin for those workers - 114,000 - was Asia and the Middle East. The second largest source of new foreign workers were the 80,000 from the "old" European Union member countries. |