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The Government has traditionally used data from the Labour Force survey to estimate how many EU nationals are working in Britain from which it has extrapolated how many are claiming benefits.
It does not actually know how many EU migrants claiming benefits have lived in Britain for four years or less either.
It is unclear whether the government even knows how many EU nationals receiving tax credits have resided in Britain for less than four years.
Downing Street has said it will not give a figure for how many EU migrants might be deterred from coming to Britain by the new curbs on benefits.
But then I remember just how many EU nationals have already left Britain, and how many are in advanced stages of leaving.
Nobody knows exactly how many EU foreigners live in the UK, but conservative estimates put their numbers on more than 1 million, most of them in and around London.
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EU immigrants: we massively overestimate how many EU-born people now live in the UK.
That is certainly how many other EU countries see it.
How many pro-EU voters did the same?
This is how many asylum applications other EU member countries would need to receive to match the same proportion: Among the 28 EU member states only Sweden comes anywhere near the same level, based on its 2014 figures.
It is unclear how many of the three million EU nationals in the UK will seek settled status.
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