EU Accession Countries

Mr. Hayes
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.

Mr. Jim Murphy
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.