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UK Net Migration Hits Record High

© AP Photo / Emilio MorenattiMigrants line up as the wait for a food ration distributed by the Banque Alimentaire of Calais at a camp in northern France, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. The European Union is offering funds and aid to help France cope with growing numbers of migrants near the northern city of Calais. It comes as thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the Channel Tunnel linking the two countries and boarding freight trains or trucks destined for Britain.
Migrants line up as the wait for a food ration distributed by the Banque Alimentaire of Calais at a camp in northern France, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. The European Union is offering funds and aid to help France cope with growing numbers of migrants near the northern city of Calais. It comes as thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the Channel Tunnel linking the two countries and boarding freight trains or trucks destined for Britain. - Sputnik International
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Net migration to the UK in 2015 has reached a record-breaking 330,000 people, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Net migration to the United Kingdom in 2015 has reached a record-breaking 330,000 people, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed Thursday.

The office said the figure, estimated for the year ending March 2015, represents a "statistically significant increase" from the year ending March 2014 net migration estimate of 236,000.

"This continues the generally increasing trend in net migration since the recent low of 154,000 in [year ending] September 2012," the ONS said.

In May, the ONS said net migration in 2014 had reached a 10-year 318,000 high.

The BBC cited Immigration Minister James Brokenshire as saying the latest ONS data was "deeply disappointing."

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China, India and the United States accounted for the top three countries to whom the UK granted entry clearance visas.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party won this year’s general elections on a campaign pledge to reduce net migration to the UK to below 100,000.

Net migration is calculated by subtracting the number of those leaving the country from the number of those arriving.

The ONS estimated that immigration to the UK rose to 636,000 this year from 552,000 in 2014. Immigration to the United Kingdom from within the European Union rose to 269,000 and to 284,000 from outside the EU, it added.

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