The number of people migrating from the UK has reached record levels, official Government figures show.
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.
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