Annual net migration above 250,000?

6 March 2014

"The Conservative Party has promised to reduce net immigration to the UK to under 100,000, but the annual total remains above 250,000"

Daily Telegraph, 6 March 2014

The annual total isn't above 250,000 and hasn't been since the year ending December 2010.

Net migration — the number of people moving to the UK minus the number leaving it — has increased recently though. The latest figures from the ONS show net migration at 212,000 (year ending September 2013).

net migration chart

Hat tip: Oli Hawkins (House of Commons Library)

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