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Net migration into UK increases - Office for National Statistics | |
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Net migration into the UK has risen year on year for the first time in two years, official figures show. | |
Net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those emigrating - rose to 182,000 in the year to June, up from 167,000 in the previous 12 months. | |
Prime Minister David Cameron wants to get this figure below 100,000 before the next election in 2015. | |
Immigration to the UK fell in the year to June 2013. | |
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show some 503,000 people came to live in the UK in the year ending June, compared with 517,000 people the previous year. | |
Meanwhile 320,000 people left the UK - down from 349,000 the previous year. | Meanwhile 320,000 people left the UK - down from 349,000 the previous year. |
Emigration is now at its lowest level since 2001. | |
Meanwhile the ONS said the number of people coming to the UK from the EU had gone up by 25,000, mainly for work reasons. | |
Immigration from outside the European Union (EU) saw a "statistically significant" drop to 242,000 in the year to June, from 282,000 the previous year, it said. | Immigration from outside the European Union (EU) saw a "statistically significant" drop to 242,000 in the year to June, from 282,000 the previous year, it said. |
China now tops the table for the number of new immigrants to the UK, followed by India, Poland, the US and Australia. | |
The top five destinations for emigrants were Australia, the US, India, China and France. |