Migrant Workers: EU Nationals

(asked on 18th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the change in the number of EU citizens in the UK that will be (a) engaged in agricultural work, (b) engaged in construction work, (c) employed in the NHS and (d) employed in the UK after April 2017.


Answered by
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Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 23rd January 2017

The Office for National Statistics estimate around 2.3 million EU nationals resident in the UK were in employment in Q3 2016. This is included in the November 2016 edition of the ONS Labour Market Statistics publication. Estimates are subject to a degree of uncertainty.

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