Perhaps Not What Cameron Forecast But At Least It Is 100,000 Less Than Under Labour.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3017788/The-number-immigrants-came-Britain-FELL-100-000-Coalition.html

[Gromit]

Just counting the number of foreigners arriving is utterly pointless. You must deduct the numbers returning home to get a true picture of how our population is rising due to migration. More people came under Labour, but more also left.

The net figure is the one we usually use to track immigration. The Mail are not using that figure because the Coalition have performed far worse than Labour.

The average net migration over the 13 years of Labour 1997-2010 was 169,250 per year.

Labour's last full year, 2009 the figure was 196,000.

Last year under the Coalition net immigration was nearly 300,000.

[Gromit]

Net immigration over the life of this parliament:
2014 - 298,000
2013 - 243,000
2012 - 176,000
2011 - 153,000
2010 - 252,000*

There has been 1,122,000 added to the population during the Coalition 2010-14

That is 224,000 annual average compared to 169,000 during Labour's tenure.

* Because figures are annual, the 2010 figure includes 4 months when Labour was in power.

[naomi24]

Gromit, but you're conveniently forgetting that since Labour was in power many more Europeans have been given unfettered access to the UK - and have taken advantage of it. Immigration that we do have control over, that from outside Europe, has fallen under this government.

[jim360]

Yes, and well done Cameron, but indeed he failed to meet his 100,000 net target even discounting EU immigrants. Part of the problem is, again, the cuts to the Borders Agency... rather like cutting a finger off at the same time as trying to learn the piano. It's not a brilliant strategy.

[Gromit]

Sorry Naomi, you are wrong.

The 2014 298,000 net immigration figure featured a rise of 49,000 of non EU Immigrants, and an increase of 43,000 of EU immigrants.

[naomi24]

Your source?