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Long-term immigration has fallen year-on-year, with an estimated 1.2 million people coming to live in the UK in the 12 months to June 2024, down from 1.3 million in the year to June 2023.
A total of 1.2 million people arrived in the UK in the year up to June 2024, according to the latest ONS figures released today. Net migration - the above figure, minus those who left the UK ...
Reasons for migration are changing, with a rise in arrivals to work and a drop in arrivals on study and humanitarian grounds.
Data from the Office for National Statistics indicates the UK economy grew by 0.2% in January 2024, largely fuelled by retail sales, both in the High Street and online. [258] Sunak tells Prime Minister's Questions he will not return £10m donated to the Conservative Party by Frank Hester, because he has apologised and "his remorse should be ...
Between 5 July and 31 August 2024, there were 1,240 enforced returns of people with no legal right to remain in the UK. This compares with 1,010 over the same period in 2023, an increase of 23%. Including voluntary returns, from 5 July to 29 August, there had been a total of 3,600 returns.
Nearly 30,000 undocumented migrants crossed the Channel in small boats to the UK in 2023. [144] On 20 March 2024, 514 people crossed the UK Channel, the busiest day for Channel crossings since the start of 2024. Following this, on 21 March 2024, the UK government announced that it was dealing with a "migration emergency." [145]
Net migration to the UK hit a higher than previously thought record of 906,000 in the year to June 2023, revised official estimates show. ... the 12 months to June 2024, and now stands at 728,000 ...
A 2010 estimate for the whole of the UK shows that 4.76 million people (7.7 per cent) were born outside the EU and 2.24 million (3.6 per cent) were born in another EU member state. [12] The Office for National Statistics produces annual estimates of the size of the UK population by country of birth, based on the Annual Population Survey. The ...