Entry Clearances: Employment

Mr. Clappison
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate she has made of the number of A2 nationals likely to enter the UK for employment purposes annually (a) under existing arrangements; and (b) following full right of access under EU law.

Mr. Byrne
The Border and Immigration Agency has not made any estimates of the number of A2 nationals likely to enter the UK for employment purposes following full right of access under EU law. Figures on migration since January 2007 are available in the quarterly releases of Romanian and Bulgarian accession statistics which can be found on the BIA website

http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/reports/bulgarianandromanianaccession.

I will place in the House Library copies of the most recent quarterly release.