🔴 Net migration has increased by tens of thousands in the past year, official figures are expected to show today, despite the Government’s pledge to bring numbers down
Official migration figures are likely to show tens of thousands of asylum seekers arriving in the UK in small boats across the Channel Net migration has increased by tens of thousands in the past year, official figures are expected to show today, despite theBut regular migration is also expected to rise significantly in the latest Office for National Statistics figures for the year to June 2022. In figures last year, the ONS estimated that 239,000 more people moved to the UK than left.
This year’s figures will take into account at least some of the 115,000 Ukrainians who have arrived in the UK on visas granted since the invasion of their country by Russia. It will also include Afghans resettled in the UK, with 21,450 arriving after the fall of Kabul.amid a crackdown on civil liberties in the territory will also be counted in the figures, although their status is more complicated due to the nature of the scheme that brought them to the UK.
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