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EU Accession Countries

Volume 450: debated on Monday 9 October 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effect on sectoral unemployment of workers from EU accession countries. (90528)

No assessment has been made of the effect on sectoral unemployment of recent migration from the new EU accession states.

A DWP assessment of the impact of recent migration from the eight central and eastern European accession states (A8) on claimant unemployment found no discernible statistical evidence of a link between the recent rises in claimant unemployment and inflows of migrants from the A8.