More migrants head home as UK recession deepens

The rate of Eastern European migrants registering to work in the UK has fallen and the number leaving has increased, official figures show.The Office for National Statistics said that the number of Polish and other Eastern European workers registering to work between January and March this year was 50 per cent lower than the equivalent period in 2008. Meanwhile, the number of foreign nationals overall leaving the country, a figure in which Eastern European workers are highly represented, increased by 30 per cent.
 

It’s untenable to have a normal retirement age in public-sector schemes that is significantly different from the state retirement age

Brian Bailey, Director of pensions, West Midlands Pension Fund and member of High Pay Commission