THE latest government datasets on trends in migration to and
from the UK are analysed by the IPPR think tank in its May 2010
Migration Statistics, published in June 2010. This will be of
interest to the many rural areas which have experienced
significant flows of migrant workers from EU Accession States
since 2004, with implications for their economies, local
services and communities. Net immigration to the UK is falling.
In the year to September 2009 some 142,000 more people migrated
into the UK than migrated out of the UK. However, this number is
11% less than that for the previous year. This is largely
because the flow of migrants to the UK has slowed, most notably
those from EU Accession States (A8) such as Poland and the
Baltic Republics. The most striking feature is that, in the year
to September 2009, some 12,000 more migrants from A8 countries
left the UK than arrived here. This is in marked contrast to the
peak of 2007, when there was a net inflow from A8 countries of
over 80,000. In the last year al