International economic migrants. Data briefing for East Riding of Yorkshire

Key issues

The briefing describes National Insurance number and Workers’ Registration Scheme [WRS] data, its limitations and provides some figures on numbers of migrant workers in the East Riding of Yorkshire, their country of origin compared with national data and place of residence and work. Nationally available data does not allow an accurate estimate of the migrant worker population, but suggests a substantial increase in the number of foreign nationals in the last two years.