An increase in migrants from Romania has helped push the number of people in England and Wales born outside the UK to ten million — or one in six of the population — for the first time.
Figures from last year’s census, released by the Office for National Statistics, showed that the number born in Romania and living in England and Wales had grown by 576 per cent since the previous census, from about 80,000 in 2011 to 539,000 in 2021. Working restrictions on those arriving from Romania had been lifted in 2014.
The total number of people in England and Wales born outside the UK rose from 7.5 million (13.4 per cent of the population) to ten million (16.8 per cent). However, there was
