Official figures fail to reveal the true picture of migration into Britain, according to the chairman of the parliamentary inquiry into population statistics. Michael Fallon MP, who chairs the Treasury sub-committee's inquiry into counting the population, has admitted the Office for National Statistics figures are not fit for purpose. Speaking ahead of publication of the committee's report, he told local authority researchers at the Royal Statistical Society the inaccuracy of the current figures were ‘distorting spending allocations'. He said there was ‘simply no reliable source of information' used for current migration data. LGA chairman, Sir Simon Milton, warned: ‘Official statistics on how many migrants are coming or where they are going are inadequate.'
