Number of Poles in UK on the increase

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Poles come ahead of the second largest minority without a British passport in the UK – Indians.

The ONS says that the number of Indians in the UK (362,000) is undervalued, however, as Indians are not allowed to have dual citizenship, and need to forfeit their Indian citizenship if they take on another nationality.

According to ONS, Polish women in the UK give birth to 23,000 children a year.

Of the 916,000 Poles living in the UK, nearly 12 percent (108,000 people) were born in the UK.

When compared with figures from 2003 – a year before Poland joined the European Union – the population of Poles in Great Britain has increased more than twentyfold. (rg)

Source: PAP