Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the fact that the net long-term international migration figure for the year ending September 2015 was 323,000 rather than their ambition of tens of thousands, what is the high migration assumption in the latest ONS population projections, and what they estimate will be the increase in the UK population over the next five years.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.