Scotland: Dramatic increase in economic migrants in the last years
According to a recent analysis, the number of migrant workers who have registered for work in Scotland has risen enormously in the last two years. 40,000 migrant workers have registered for National Insurance – that’s more than double the number of 15,000 workers counted two years before. Additionally, the analysis revealed that the new workers from abroad have helped to reverse the decline of the Scottish population: the total population has risen ubstantially in the years of 2004 and 2005. The report also states that Scotland actually has a smaller proportion of new migrants than the UK as a whole: a total of 6% of National Insurance registrations have been in Scotland, whereas the country represents 8.25% of the UK’s total population.
