Sir: Your article of 20 May (‘UK must build housing for migrants says EU’) is misleading when it says ‘800,000 EU citizens flocked to the UK in 2015 – three times more than previously thought’. ONS publishes estimates of both long term and short term migration regularly and the latest report found no evidence that either figure had been under estimated.
Yours faithfully,
Glen Watson
Deputy National Statistician and Director General, Population and Public Policy
Office for National Statistics