The Department of Work and Pensions has revealed that it issued 713,000 new National Insurance numbers in the last year to foreign workers, with over 2.5m since 2002.
These figures obviously only include those who are here legally, with the government being quick to point out that some will have returned home.
Shamelessly Immigration Minister Liam Byrne is quotes as saying “from next year we will start counintg people in and out of Britain”, at the opening of The Migration Impacts Forum 21 June 2007. Oh well there's an idea, how on earth did he come up with that?
Source Home Office website
http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/forum-migration-impacts
Such rapid increases in the population clearly puts strain on all sections of our public services and not least on our housing stock, increasing yet further the demand for new builds.
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