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| Net migration to UK rises to 260,000 in year to June | Net migration to UK rises to 260,000 in year to June |
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| Net migration to the UK rose to 260,000 in the year to June - an increase of 78,000 on the previous year. | Net migration to the UK rose to 260,000 in the year to June - an increase of 78,000 on the previous year. |
| The figure is calculated by taking away the number of people leaving the country from the number coming in. | The figure is calculated by taking away the number of people leaving the country from the number coming in. |
| Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to get net migration below 100,000 before the election in 2015. | Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to get net migration below 100,000 before the election in 2015. |
| But according to the data, 583,000 people immigrated to the UK in the last year - an increase of 45,000 from the EU and 30,000 from outside. | But according to the data, 583,000 people immigrated to the UK in the last year - an increase of 45,000 from the EU and 30,000 from outside. |
| BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said the figures were "deeply, deeply significant" and "deeply awkward for David Cameron". | BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said the figures were "deeply, deeply significant" and "deeply awkward for David Cameron". |
| He added that, far from getting anywhere near the Conservatives' target, "immigration is now actually higher than Labour left it". | |
| The prime minister is expected to make a speech in the coming days outlining his plans to reduce immigration. | |
| At the weekend, Home Secretary Theresa May accepted it was "unlikely" the government would meet its migration target. | |
| 'No surprise' | |
| Some 247,000 EU citizens came to the UK for work in the year ending June, the Office for National Statistics said, including 32,000 Romanians and Bulgarians. | Some 247,000 EU citizens came to the UK for work in the year ending June, the Office for National Statistics said, including 32,000 Romanians and Bulgarians. |
| The number of people immigrating from outside the EU rose to 272,000. | |
| Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said the "disappointing" net migration figures were down to "pressures we've seen from EU migration". | |
| "What I think they show is that where we have the controls, we have seen an impact on non-EU migration - down by around 50,000 under this government to levels that we haven't seen since the late 1990s, | |
| "But where the pressure is being brought to bear is on EU migration where we don't have those same controls... it's absolutely right that the prime minister has identified this as the key pressure point and why he'll be making a speech on those issues very shortly," he said. | |
| Independent experts at Oxford University's Migration Observatory said the government missing its target should "come as no surprise". | Independent experts at Oxford University's Migration Observatory said the government missing its target should "come as no surprise". |
| Acting director Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva said it would be wrong to suggest the target could have been met without the increased migration from the EU. | Acting director Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva said it would be wrong to suggest the target could have been met without the increased migration from the EU. |
| "Increased EU net migration has certainly meant that the degree by which the target is missed will be much higher," he said. | "Increased EU net migration has certainly meant that the degree by which the target is missed will be much higher," he said. |
| "But it is clear that the target would have been missed with or without this increase, as non-EU net migration alone is way over 100,000." | "But it is clear that the target would have been missed with or without this increase, as non-EU net migration alone is way over 100,000." |
| Net migration peaked at 320,000 in 2005. It fell to a low of 154,000 in the year ending September 2012. |