More new UK jobs were taken by non-EU migrants than by Brits last year
MORE new UK jobs were taken by non-EU migrants than by Brits last year, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.
Three in five new UK jobs – an astounding 420,066 – went to migrants from outside the EU.
Government data shows that the number of employees on Britain’s payroll jumped by 681,939 from December 2021 to December 2022.
Of all new employees working here during that time, 62 per cent were non-EU migrants coming from countries such as India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
The shocking data lays bare how the UK jobs market is being propped up by a surge in workers from overseas.
In just two years, the number of non-EU workers on the payroll has risen by a third, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
The December 2020 total of non-EU workers on UK payrolls was 1,921,098, but by December 2022 that had shot up to 2,556,741, a rise of 33.08 per cent.
This follows last month’s news that total net migration boosted the UK population by a record 745,000 people in the year to December 2022.
London in particular has seen a huge rise in workers from outside the EU. A record 934,046 non EU workers registered in London in December 2022 – up 118,565 on the year before.
Virtually all regions across the UK saw a huge annual rise in non-EU workers between December 2021 and 2022.
In the North East, non-EU employees jumped from 37,131 to 48,431 – a rise of 30 per cent.
In the West Midlands, the increase was 22 per cent – from 168,820 to 206,939.
And there was a 24 per cent rise – from 105,466 to 130,928 – in Yorkshire and The Humber.
The NHS, care homes and seasonal farm work employ huge numbers of non-EU migrants.
But while overall migration is rising, the number of workers coming to the UK from EU countries has been steadily falling.