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Alex Glennie of the Institute of Public Policy Research said the net migration figures were bad news for the government and for Britain.

It concluded that the international passenger survey on which the migration figures were based remained the best source of information for measuring long-term migration.

The migration figures were compiled by Homes for the North, a new campaign group made up of 19 housing associations which provide homes to a million people.

When the last migration figures were announced, Mr Cameron announced a battery of measures for reducing the total, and it is not impossible that still more will be detailed in response to next week's statistics.

Immigration Minister James Brokenshire told the BBC that the "disappointing" net migration figures were down to "pressures we've seen from EU migration".

She said that if you excluded immigration from the EU, the migration figures were back down to 1990s levels, but the government recognised it needed to do something about European migration.

The trouble with net migration figures is there's so little control over it.

Migration figures are what hits the headlines, causing the government most anxiety.

Net migration figures are calculated from the International Passenger Survey, which is woefully inadequate at tracking where international students end up.

Eurosceptics were hoping the ONS inquiry would lead to "a bombshell report" and the official migration figures being declared unreliable.

The migration figures are notoriously poor and difficult to interpret, however.