Update on eastern European migrants

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The Home Office will issue data on the number of people from the eastern European states who have come to Britain and applied for certain types of work permits.

However, it will not provide a full picture of the numbers who have moved to the UK because no such records are kept by the Government.

The Home Office will also publish an update on the number of immigrants who have arrived from the eight former Communist states which joined the EU in the previous wave of expansion in 2004 - known as the "A8" countries.

Asylum figures for the first quarter of this year are also being released.

The last set to be published showed the Government missed its target to deport failed asylum seekers in the final quarter of last year.

Ministers were 10% behind their public performance target to remove more failed applicants than the number of "unfounded" cases arriving in the same period.

But taking 2006 as a whole, the Government met its target because it removed larger numbers in the first six months.

In the year, 18,235 failed asylum seekers were deported compared with 17,780 "unfounded" cases.

From October to December, there were 4,085 deportations compared with 4,560 arrivals - a shortfall of 475.