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May 16, 2014
A Tory minister has admitted the Government is likely to miss its target to slash immigration after a huge surge in the number of foreign workers.
Anna Soubry said the Coalition was not on course to meet a pledge to cut annual arrivals below 100,000 by next year.
Figures showed an extra 292,000 people born overseas found jobs in Britain in the 12 months to March this year.
It included a huge number from Poland and other ex-Eastern Bloc countries that joined the EU in May 2004.
The total employed from those countries was 802,000 – an increase of 115,000 compared to a year ago.
An extra 29,000 Romanians and Bulgarians were also at work here, while more than 20,000 of the 292,000 total came from western European countries such as Italy.
And there were an extra 124,000 born outside the EU who found jobs in the UK in the last 12 months, taking that total to 2.8million.
The Office for National Statistics figures made a massive dent in David Cameron’s 2010 election promise to reduce the number of newcomers.
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister conceded to senior MPs he had not brought immigration down as much as he would have liked despite it being a key concern among voters.
Yesterday Miss Soubry, a defence minister, said: ‘At the moment we don’t seem to be on course.’
But she insisted on Radio 4’s World At One programme that Number 10’s pledge had been aimed at illegal immigrants rather than those with the right to travel to the UK to work.
She said: ‘It was actually about a large number of people who were here who definitely should not be here.’
