Immigration ‘particularly important’ to some sectors of UK economy, says ONS report
Here’s hoping the Brexit negotiations on freedom of movement don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater on the issue of the labour force needs of many of our rural businesses. This article tells us that the ONS report featured above identifies that:
Immigration is “particularly important” to the wholesale and retail, hospitality and health sectors, which employ around 1.5 million non-UK nationals, according to an official analysis.
Highlighting the severity of imposing curbs to immigration after Brexit research from the independent Office for National Statistics also shows that EU migrants account for as many as one in 10 of employees in some sectors of the British economy.
The ONS data claims that more than two million migrants from the EU were employed in industries including manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare and financial services during 2016.
The organisation’s annual report shows that last year’s estimated 3.4m workers – or around 11 per cent of the UK labour market – were foreign nationals. The number was made up of around 2.2m EU nationals and 1.2m non-EU nationals.