January 3th 2011 - "UK Migration 'set to continue at current levels'"
Source - Yahoo UK News
Increased immigration from European countries not covered by the Government's proposed immigration cap, along with a downward trend
in emigration, will all lead to net migration staying around the 200,000 level in 2011, the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) said.It warned that introducing
"hasty measures" so the Government can try to fulfil its pledge of cutting net migration to the tens of thousands by 2015 would be damaging to the UK's economy.
The ippr's Migration Review 2010/11 said that if the UK economy continued to recover, the number of people coming to the UK for work could
increase. From next April, the number of migrant workers coming to Britain from outside the EU will be cut by a fifth and capped at 21,700, but this is only
expected to cut overall immigration by two or three per cent.
And emigration by UK citizens has dropped substantially - from just more than 30,000 in the year to March 2010, compared with 130,000 in the
previous 12 months - and "there is no obvious reason why this trend should change substantially in 2011".
Other forms of migration - refugee flows, family migration and the return of Britons to the UK - "look set to continue at roughly their current levels",
it said.
Immigration Minister Damian Green said: "The Government remains absolutely committed to reducing net migration to sustainable levels - from
the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands within the lifetime of this Parliament."
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