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Constituencies in Great Britain with the largest percentage falls from 1997 to 2005
Thousand and percentage
	1997	2005	Change	Percentage change
Birmingham, Northfield	31	22	-9	-29
Ealing Southall	49	34	-16	-32
Spelthorne	60	41	-20	-32
West Renfrewshire	25	15	-11	-42
Warrington South	56	26	-30	-53
Note: The surveys cover Great Britain only. Corresponding estimates are not available for Northern Ireland constituencies. Estimates exclude jobs in agricultural sectors Sources: Annual Business Inquiry 2005 and Annual Employment Survey 1997

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Employee jobs in parliamentary constituencies in Greater Merseyside
Thousand
	1997	2005
Birkenhead	34	32
Bootle	30	36
Crosby	17	19
Halton	33	31
Knowsley North and Sefton East	27	36
Knowsley South	23	30
Knowsley, Garston	21	27
Liverpool, Riverside	101	128
Liverpool, Walton	24	27
Liverpool Wavertree	28	33
Liverpool, West Derby	10	11
St. Helens North	20	21
St. Helens South	31	38
Southport	31	35
Wallasey	25	22
Weaver Vale	39	44
Wirral South	23	25
Wirral West	17	18
Note: Estimates exclude jobs in agricultural sectors. Source: Annual Business Inquiry 2005 and Annual Employment Survey 1997

Foreign Workers

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of inward migrants to the UK intending to stay for 12 months or more who cited work-related purposes as the main reason for migration in each year for which figures are available; and how many work permit holders were given leave to enter the UK in each year that such data have been collected. [154945]

Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 10 September 2007:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to respond on behalf of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to your question concerning the number of inward migrants to the UK intending to stay for 12 months or more who cited work-related purposes as the main reason for migration in each year for which figures are available; and how many work permit holders were given leave to enter the UK in each year that such data has been collected.

The estimates of inward migration to the UK of those intending to stay 12 months or more are taken from the International Passenger Survey (IPS) and are shown in the attached table 1. The usual ONS definition of ‘work related’ includes those migrating for business reasons and au pairs, and those with ‘a definite job to go to’ are shown as a separate sub-category. The ONS definitions include a further category for those ‘looking for work’ which are not included in the ‘work related’ category but are shown here for completeness. The data are also broken down by British, European Union and non-EU citizens as work permits are only applicable to non-EU citizens.

Work permit data from the Home Office is shown in the attached Table 2,

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Table 1—International Migration: estimates from the International Passenger Survey time series 1991 to 2005 Citizenship by reason for migration inflow—United Kingdom
Thousand
		of which:
	Work-related( 1)	‘Definite job’ to go	Looking for work( 2)
All citizenships
1991	40	25	15
1992	39	28	19
1993	40	24	26
1994	50	38	44
1995	50	44	—
1996	64	55	40
1997	60	50	39
1998	80	73	55
1999	90	72	61
2000	105	86	53
2001	120	106	47
2002	102	96	59
2003	110	95	57
2004	139	116	72
2005	148	140	76
British
1991	14	12	8
1992	16	15	10
1993	15	11	18
1994	21	21	29
1995	21	21	—
1996	19	19	22
1997	21	21	25
1998	25	23	29
1999	25	25	30
2000	28	28	30
2001	27	27	24
2002	25	25	29
2003	20	19	25
2004	15	15	22
2005	21	21	25
European Union
1991	11	5	2
1992	7	3	2
1993	7	5	—
1994	10	8	7
1995	14	12	—
1996	26	21	6
1997	15	14	3
1998	27	26	6
1999	25	20	8
2000	25	21	2
2001	29	23	3
2002	18	16	6
2003	24	23	11
2004	52	42	13
2005	63	62	26
Non-European Union
1991	15	9	5
1992	16	9	7
1993	17	9	8
1994	19	9	7
1995	15	11	—
1996	20	16	12
1997	23	15	11
1998	28	24	20
1999	41	27	23
2000	53	37	21
2001	64	56	20
2002	59	55	24
2003	66	52	22
2004	73	59	37
2005	64	57	24
Notes: 1. The ONS definition of ‘work related’ includes those with a ‘definite job’ to go to, au pairs and 'business' reasons but excludes those looking for work, diplomats, military personnel, merchant seaman and flight crews. ‘Looking for work’ is included separately. 2. ‘Looking for work’ is not included in the ONS definition of ‘work related’ but is shown for information. Data are not available for 1995. These are recorded under ‘Other reasons for visit’ which is not shown in the table. 3. Italicised estimates are not statistically robust (defined as standard error > 30%) but have been included for completeness. 4. Full details of country groupings are available in the Notes to tables section of International Migration Series MN no.32 (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=507)

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