Immigrants: Russia

Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 9 September 2014.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Sylvia Hermon Sylvia Hermon Independent, North Down

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the number of Russian citizens resident in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

Photo of Brooks Newmark Brooks Newmark The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Caron Walker to Lady Hermon, dated September 2014

On behalf of the Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question to ask what estimate he has made of the number of Russian citizens resident in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

The latest estimates that are available for the number of Russian citizens resident in the UK are derived from Annual Population Survey (APS) data for the 12 month period of January to December 2013.

The estimated number of Russian citizens resident in households in the UK was 35,000, with a corresponding margin of error of +/- 8,000. The margin of error refers to the 95 per cent confidence interval and is a measure of the uncertainty associated with making inferences from a sample. In this case we expect the true number of Russian citizens resident in households in the UK to be within the range 27,000 to 43,000 in 19 out of 20 possible samples drawn.

The APS is the Labour Force Survey (LFS) plus various sample boosts. It is a household survey and so does not include people living in most types of communal establishment.

Does this answer the above question?

Yes1 person thinks so

No0 people think not

Would you like to ask a question like this yourself? Use our Freedom of Information site.