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Old January 21st, 2015 #43
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Default Number of migrants in UK towns trebled in last 10 years

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Number of migrants in UK towns trebled in last 10 years
THE foreign-born population of some British towns has tripled in just 10 years, a report shows.
Published: 00:01, Wed, January 21, 2015










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The number of migrants in the UK has increased three-fold in the last 10 years

In Boston, Lincolnshire, immigrant numbers are up 389 per cent and foreigners now account for 15 per cent of the residents – up from just three per cent a decade ago.

In Merthyr Tydfil, the proportion of migrants rose from 1.4 per cent to 4.5 per cent.

Hull, Wrexham and Aberdeen all saw the proportion of migrants in their populations more than double.

The figures were compiled using census figures by Oxford University’s Migration Observatory.

It also found that the share of foreign-born people in the UK’s total population increased by more than 50 per cent between 1993 and 2013, making the population now 12.5 per cent foreign-born.

More than twice as many EU migrants are claiming unemployment benefits in Britain than the number of Britons claiming unemployment benefits elsewhere, figures from 23 EU nations show.

Almost 65,000 EU nationals are getting Jobseeker’s Allowance in the UK, among them 14,880 Poles.

Just two unemployed Britons are living on welfare in Poland.
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