Record number of Britons quit UK

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said long-term migration from the country reached 385,000 in the year to July 2006, the highest figure since current counting methods were introduced in 1991.

A number of long-term migrants who arrived in the UK in the same period was 574,000, slightly down on the previous year.

Overall, the population of the country rose 0.6% in the year to 60,587,000.

The data revealed that in 2005/06, 74,000 people from the Eastern European countries which joined the European Union in May 2004 arrived in the UK - a much lower figure than the number registered to work by the Home Office in separate statistics.

The ONS' figures indicated that 16,000 from the so-called A8 countries left the UK in the same period.

A quarter of babies born in the UK now have a foreign mother or father, the figures showed.

"We have figures for the contribution of mothers and fathers born abroad and that has risen slightly from under 20% in 2001 to slightly over 25% now," said an ONS spokesman.

"That reflects the cumulative effect of immigration over the last 40 years."

In total there was an increase in births in the year to 734,000 compared with 663,000 in the year to mid 2002.