Figures from last year’s census, released by the Office for National Statistics, showed that the number born in Romania living in England and Wales had risen by 576 per cent since the previous census, from around 80,000 in 2011 to 539,000 in 2021. Work restrictions on those arriving from Romania were lifted in 2014. The total number of people in England and Wales born outside the UK rose from 7.5 million (13.4 per cent of the population) to ten million (16.8 per cent). However, there was
