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Workers Registration Scheme: Greater London

Volume 481: debated on Monday 20 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people registered on the Workers Registration Scheme there have been in each London borough in each year since the new scheme was introduced in May 2004. (227230)

I have been asked to reply.

The Home Office only records the regional distribution of workers from A8 countries when they first registered to the worker registration scheme. Data by local authority were published in August 2008 in concert with the Accession Monitoring Report (AMR) on the Local Government Analysis & Research (LGAR) website.

The following table shows the last published available data by local authority for the number of workers when they first registered to the worker registration scheme (WRS) in each London borough since the scheme was introduced.

Local authority

May 2004to March 2006

April to December 2006

January to December 2007

January to June 2008

Barking and Dagenham

250

85

135

50

Barnet

3,170

580

1,155

550

Bexley

285

85

130

60

Brent

2,160

685

1,070

405

Bromley

515

155

220

95

Camden

5,435

1,640

2,335

995

City of London

1,955

710

915

510

Croydon

1,225

390

610

265

Ealing

3,745

1,310

1,970

935

Enfield

1,175

465

625

295

Greenwich

750

340

485

205

Hackney

1,255

330

540

325

Hammersmith and Fulham

2,555

1,120

1,380

630

Haringey

1,650

410

580

305

Harrow

1,410

500

810

165

Havering

285

220

260

115

Hillingdon

2,785

875

1,355

560

Hounslow

1,785

670

1,045

440

Islington

1,715

505

745

410

Kensington and Chelsea

2,440

595

820

435

Kingston upon Thames

705

205

285

145

Lambeth

1,060

420

525

355

Lewisham

625

150

195

80

Merton

1,280

395

535

265

Newham

1,045

335

330

215

Redbridge

625

635

750

330

Richmond upon Thames

1,190

340

500

300

Southwark

3,110

845

1,220

560

Sutton

345

115

160

115

Tower Hamlets

1,515

585

845

360

Waltham Forest

900

275

505

210

Wandsworth

1,890

515

630

305

Westminster

11,745

3,270

4,260

2,145

Total

62,575

19,775

27,920

13,150

Notes:

1. 99 per cent. of approved nationwide applications currently have an accurate postcode. Applications where postcodes could not be matched to the Office of National Statistics database are excluded from this data-set.

2. Figures based on employers address and the date the application is approved, rather than the date on the application form as used in the Accession Monitoring Report.

3. Figures are rounded to nearest five.

4. Because of rounding, figures may not add up to total shown.

5. The table presents a gross (cumulative) figure for the number of workers applying to the WRS. The figures are not current, an individual who has registered to work and who leaves employment is not required to de-register, so some of those counted will have left the employment for which they registered and indeed some are likely to have left the UK.

The figures quoted are not provided under National Statistics protocols and have been derived from local management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.