so _ statistics robert cuff. i will take that review. so tell _ statistics robert cuff.i come bearing two story you have _ about these figures. i come bearing two story you have been _ about these figures. i come bearing two story you have been talking - two story you have been talking about immigration so far, it is sup, it is a record level but not as up as we thought it was. and we can see the reasons behind that, also we have had new figures coming out on asylum claims and the backlog, we know that towards the end of last year we saw about 160,000 having their claims processed. the government have promised to bring it down, but the figure has gone up, it has gone up to about 172,000, and the number of people who are waiting more than six months to have their claim processed, has gone up by nearly 20,000. so, there is a huge number of figures coming out today, we will bring more as we learn more about them. buried in the numbers is this story on asylum claims. find this story on asylum claims. and fewer people _ this story on asylum claims. and fewer people coming from

but can we put a price on the cost of the strikes. 0ur head of statistics robert cuff has been taking to strikes down to pounds and pence, they are pulling your leg. but even a very rough accounting shows the tremors that the strikes are causing across the economy. let's start with the simplest way of measuring this, the number of days when people don't turn up to work. you can see sincejune last year, we've seen three million days of work lost to strikes, and that's the most we've seen for decades. but if you zoom further back, you can see that three million is nothing compared to the minor strikes or the winter of discontent, or in fact, to the 200 million days of sick leave that people took last year. now, how do you put a cash value on this? well, one thing that people tried to do is they multiply that day's loss figure by some estimate of the value of the work that people do on average every day. it's pretty rough and ready. there's three big reasons for that. first off, it's hard to come up with the value. what's the value of a french class or what's the difference in value betw

from our political correspondent — jonathan blake — but first let's speak to our head of data — robert cuffes in the newsroom. the main number is 600,000 people coming through and the main reasons why we are seeing such a large number is people coming to the uk from outside the eu, migration within the eu is actually not that substantial, and i can show you that now. the green line is the number of people adding to the uk population from outside the eu and that is accounting for more than 600,000, more than the total net migration into the uk, and if you look at the blue line, people from the eu, or people from the eu left the uk last year and came in —— more people. so what is driving it is migration from outside the eu and it is clear that study and work are top of the list for the reasons. they are accounting for the reasons. they are accounting for about 600,000 people coming to the uk and after that you have people coming for exceptional circumstances like ukraine and the special british national overseas programme for people from hong kong. these are the reasons why people are coming.

our head of statistics, robert cuffe, is in the newsroom with the figures.ay's strikes are bank members of as left and there head of the unit has said the patient offers are not enough. has said the patient offers are not enou:h. �* , ., ., _ enough. anything we got we earned by roductivi enough. anything we got we earned by productivity and _ enough. anything we got we earned by productivity and flexibility _ enough. anything we got we earned by productivity and flexibility over - productivity and flexibility over the last — productivity and flexibility over the last four years and what someone wants— the last four years and what someone wants to _ the last four years and what someone wants to do _ the last four years and what someone wants to do is to give all that back for nothing — wants to do is to give all that back for nothing. if wants to do is to give all that back for nothing-— for nothing. if you want to go to the minister— for nothing. if you want to go to the minister told _ for nothing. if you want to go to the minister told us. _ for nothing.

our head of data robert cuffe has been looking at the figures.ere 1.79 million posts in the adult social care. 165,000 of those where they can. that's a rise of 52% on the previous year. for mark, the chair of the national care association, thank you so much forjoining us here in the programme. what do you make of these figures that we see today? well. programme. what do you make of these figures that we see today?— figures that we see today? well, i think what they _ figures that we see today? well, i think what they demonstrate - figures that we see today? well, i think what they demonstrate is i figures that we see today? well, i i think what they demonstrate is that we are becoming reliance on that international work for us, but before we start to get too worried about it, the health and social care sector has always had some reliance on a migrant work for us. and we always sort of teetered around the ten to 12% of our work for us being from outside the uk. we wear reliance on our european colleagues to come and support us before. well, what

0ur head of statistics robert cuffe is in the newsroom to take us through it.le are getting increasingly infuriated. after four years of how you deal and the idea that we are going to give up hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds of productivity, that takes 140 years to gain for nothing. and a sub rpi increase isn't going to wash. about an hour later, government minister hugh merriman told us that at the moment, a train driver is paid on average for a 35 hour week, just short of £60,000. this pay offer would take them up to £65,000. and in terms of previous years, their pay has gone up by 39% since 2011. that's the highest increase of any employment group. they're both right because they're both answering different questions. so where does that leave us? well, let's take a look at the data on what's happened to the average salary over the last decade. and i'm showing you here the total take home pay of the average worker in the uk. it's now stands at about or as of march last year. we don't have more recent data. it stood at abou