Targeting uncertainty? EU migration in the UK
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Today’s migration data release from the ONS makes the Government’s efforts to reduce net migration from 239,000 in 2010 (the number reported today) to the tens of thousands by 2015 more difficult than ever. Today’s figures show the highest annual level of net migration since 2004 and a 21% increase from 2009.
One of the key difficulties and uncertainties that the Government faces in hitting its overall net migration target is that there are several factors that the UK cannot control – with perhaps the most obvious being immigration and emigration of British and other EU citizens. Today’s evidence of a steep rise in net migration from Eastern Europe is testament to the challenges this causes for the Government and raises the question of whether Government policies to cut net migration from outside the EU may be stimulating a demand for more EU workers.
It is worth remembering what is actually meant by ‘net migration’. The term refers to the balance between migrants entering a country (...
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