UK immigration statistics underestimated total by 350,000 in a decade
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19:25 11/04/2014
The UK's Office for National Statistics says that it underestimated the true extent of immigration from Eastern Europe between 2001 and 2011 by about 350,000. It says that the error occurred because...
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