Migration
(asked on 5th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many UK citizens emigrated in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.
The Rt Hon. the Lord Wigley
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
11 July 2023
Dear Lord Wigley,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking for an estimate of how many UK citizens emigrated in each of the last five years for which figures are available (HL9085).
The figures for British nationals emigrating out of the UK for the last five years are shown in Table 1 which is sourced from Figure 2 of our Long-term international migration, provisional: year ending December 2022 bulletin [1] which was released in May.
Table 1: Number of British nationals emigrating out of the UK, between 2018 and 2022
Period | British |
YE Dec 2018 | 94,000 |
YE Dec 2019 | 98,000 |
YE Dec 2020 | 59,000 |
YE Dec 2021 | 76,000 |
YE Dec 2022 | 92,000 |
Source: Office for National Statistics
Please note that these are currently our best estimates but are subject to change. This is because in September 2023 we will be updating our migration estimates across the previous decade as part of rebased population estimates to align with Census 2021. For more information, please see our Provisional plans for publishing the latest population and migration estimates [2].
When accessing any of our files you may find it useful to read the 'notes, terms and conditions' contained within them.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond