An in-depth study found the influx of people seeking well-paid jobs in 2008 will be more than double that of 1997, the year Labour came to power. The report, by the Centre for Economics and Business Research, forecast there will be a total of 812,000 skilled migrants living here by 2012. A decade ago there were 400,000.These arrivals, the majority of whom from Eastern Europe are expected to be recruited into senior roles in computing, teaching, IT support and the National Health Service. The research, for the recruitment company, Harvey Nash, takes no account of the workers who are arriving to find lower-skilled employment in factories and agriculture. It is estimated this rise will happen despite the new points-based migration system introduced by the Government last month, which was designed to restrict the number of skilled overseas workers.
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