Sentences with phrase «migration figures»
The phrase "migration figures" refers to statistics or data that provide information on the movement of people from one place to another, such as the number of people immigrating to a country or emigrating from a country. Full definition
The legacy of their talk about controls is the net migration figures which we have seen going through the roof.
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But MPs have recommended they should not be included in migration figures because they are currently the easiest target for ministers seeking to cut the number of new arrivals.
The government should be «thoroughly embarrassed» about the latest migration figures, according to UKIP.
Immigration minister James Brokenshire says that new migration figures show that the number of migrants from areas the government has control over are dropping.
The government should cut student numbers out of its official migration figures or else risk harming the UK economy, a leading think tank said today.
Fewer EU workers are coming to the UK in the run - up to Brexit, and more are leaving, the latest government migration figures reveal.
During the same period as the ONS migration figures — January 2016 to March 2016 — our firm saw a three-fold increase in EU citizens and UK organisations seeking Permanent Residency and British Nationality status for themselves and their staff as the UK headed towards an EU vote.
The scandal has provided a window into the murky depths of British immigration policy and, in particular, a set of policy decisions made in 2012 by the then Home Secretary Theresa May to ensure a «Hostile Environment» aimed at supporting a drive to reduce net migration figures.
The removal of international students from Britain's net migration figures is an important and symbolic step to achieving this.
This insistence that students are included in the migration figures not only plays to a toxic narrative on immigration which belongs in the past but also goes against the principles of Global Britain.
The net migration figures - which we will get down to the tens of thousands by the end of this Parliament - show that the vast bulk of immigrants come from outside the European Union.
Home Secretary Theresa May was dispatched on to the airwaves in advance of the net migration figures to tell the nation that the forthcoming immigration bill will include tough measures to seize the wages of people caught working illegally in Britain.
Abbott is due to use her speech to outline the «fair and reasonable values» upon which Labour will base its immigration policy, a day before the quarterly publication of the net migration figures.
The overall increase of 58,000 in the net migration figure will come as a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May's aim of cutting it to the «tens of thousands» by the time of the next election in May 2015.