Press releases
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28 Feb 2013The government is more than half way toward its goal of reducing net migration to its ‘tens of thousands’ net migration target, new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. About...
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15 Feb 2013It is impossible for the Government – or anyone else – to develop an effective method to predict the number of migrants who will come to the UK from Romania and Bulgaria (the ‘A2’ states) when...
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11 Dec 2012
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29 Nov 2012Figures released today show that net migration has fallen significantly – from 242,000 in the year to March 2011 to 183,000 in the year to March 2012 with all major reasons – study, work and family...
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5 Sep 2012Using immigration policy to keep the UK’s population under 70 million would only be achievable by radical policy change and much deeper cuts to net migration than those needed to reach the government...
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30 Aug 2012For the first time today the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the margins of error associated with its net-migration estimates. The central estimate for net migration in 2011 was 216...
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16 Jul 2012Any plans to try to limit the size of the UK population need to be based on evidence rather than just a ‘round number’, the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said today.
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29 Jun 2012The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford has today published a detailed analysis of the impact of EU freedom of movement on UK net migration and migrant stocks.
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12 Jun 2012New policies to restrict family immigration from outside the EU will affect people in their 20s, women, and those outside London more than other groups, Oxford University’s Migration Observatory said...
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29 Feb 2012New analysis shows that any short-term cut to net-migration brought about by reductions in immigration will be partially reversed in the long-term because of declining emigration – a “bounce effect...
