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Net migration to Wales last year: +14,000 international, ONS says

Year to December 2025. Moves from the rest of the UK are a separate figure. Asylum support is a third. Westminster sets visas; councils run housing and GP lists.

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ONS long-term international migration, year to December 2025, Wales: net international migration estimated at +14,000. Rest-of-UK moves are a separate series and still the bigger churn in some valleys authorities — people leaving for England, people coming back. Asylum support (the hotel number) is a third series. Do not add them together and call it one invasion, or one workforce miracle.

Westminster sets visas. Cardiff Bay sets housing targets, NHS plans, school places. If your argument needs a power the Senedd does not have, say so. If it needs a GP list, that is local, and it is in the Brief.

ONS long-term international migration, YE Dec 2025, Wales. Asylum support is the separate Home Office series.

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