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I have been asked to reply.This information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked them to reply.Letter from Jil Matheson, dated September 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question concerning how many people have immigrated to the UK who were not British citizens or citizens of another EU member state in each year since 1989. (291837)""Table 1, attached, gives estimates of international immigration of those who were not British citizens or citizens of another EU member state between 1989 and 2007. The estimates for 1989 and 1990 are derived from the International Passenger Survey (IPS) only. The estimates for 1991 to 2007 are IPS-based but have also been adjusted to account for asylum seekers, people migrating to and from the Republic of Ireland, and people whose intended length of stay has changed from their original intentions. The information required to make these adjustments is not available prior to 1991. Estimates of the number of immigrants by citizenship are published and can be found on the ONS website at:""http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=507"<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Table 1: International immigration: United Kingdom: Estimates 1989 to 2007, non-EU citizens</th></tr></thead><TR><TD></TD><TD>Thousand</TD></TR><TR><TD>1989</TD><TD>114</TD></TR><TR><TD>1990¹</TD><TD>124</TD></TR><TR><TD>1991²</TD><TD>167</TD></TR><TR><TD>1992</TD><TD>131</TD></TR><TR><TD>1993</TD><TD>135</TD></TR><TR><TD>1994</TD><TD>156</TD></TR><TR><TD>1995</TD><TD>167</TD></TR><TR><TD>1996</TD><TD>152</TD></TR><TR><TD>1997</TD><TD>166</TD></TR><TR><TD>1998</TD><TD>206</TD></TR><TR><TD>1999</TD><TD>272</TD></TR><TR><TD>2000</TD><TD>316</TD></TR><TR><TD>2001</TD><TD>313</TD></TR><TR><TD>2002</TD><TD>357</TD></TR><TR><TD>2003</TD><TD>344</TD></TR><TR><TD>2004</TD><TD>370</TD></TR><TR><TD>2005</TD><TD>317</TD></TR><TR><TD>2006</TD><TD>343</TD></TR><TR><TD>2007</TD><TD>305</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹ Estimates from 1989 and 1990 are based on the International Passenger Survey (IPS) only.</td></TR><TR><td>² Estimates from 1991 to 2007 are based on the IPS and adjusted for asylum seekers, people migrating to and from the Republic of Ireland, and people whose intended length of stay has changed from their original intentions</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |