Migrant Movements - who's coming and who's leaving the UK
Revised figures show net migration to the UK reached record levels last year. Seven hundred and forty-five thousand more people came to the country than left in 2022.
Revised figures from the Office for National Statistics show net migration to the UK reached record levels last year. Seven hundred and forty-five thousand more people came to the country than left in 2022 - up almost a-hundred-and-forty-thousand on the initial figure. The ONS said the population of England and Wales grew by an estimated 1% in the year to June 2022 - the fastest rate since the baby boom in the 1960s, but this time it was driven by international migration. But it cautioned its estimates could be revised again - and provisional figures to June of this year suggest the rate of net migration may now be slowing.
So what are we to make of these figures - and is the situation in the UK being reflected elsewhere. Our Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and Legal correspondent, Dominic Casciani, has the answers in this episode of our 5 Questions on podcast.
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