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4,000 new migrants receiving NI numbers every week (12 May 2014)
Date: 12/05/2014
New figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that every week 4,000 National Insurance numbers are issued to new migrants to the UK.
The Daily Express reports that the statistics from the DWP also show where newcomers to the UK settle in Britain, with 1.2 million migrants from Poland choosing to settle in north London, Edinburgh and Birmingham – while migrants from Romania and Bulgaria traditionally settle on the Welsh borders.
Choice of employment may play a part in where migrants to the UK settle – workers from Lithuania, for example, have mainly settled in East Anglia, where agricultural jobs are more easily found. DWP figures show that 256,000 people from Lithuania now live in East Anglia.
Workers from the Czech Republic favour Manchester to live and work.
Despite the number of new NI numbers issued to migrants each week by the DWP, the anticipated influx of new workers from Bulgaria and Romania does not appear to have taken place.
However, the Express reports that since 2002, Britain has welcomed 2.3 million migrants from former communist countries – in 2013, more migrants from former communist countries arrived in the UK than since 2008, excluding newcomers from Bulgaria and Romania who moved to Britain after border restrictions on those EU member states were lifted on 31 December 2013.
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