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WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE CHIEF MINISTER
BY DEPUTY M.R. HIGGINS OF ST. HELIER ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 3rd FEBRUARY 2015
Question
Will the Chief Minister advise members:
- the current estimated size of the Jersey working population;
- the number of people who applied for registration cards under the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012 during the period 1 October 2014 to December 2014 breaking down the numbers into the nationality and country of origin of applicants;
- the total number of people who have been issued with registration cards under the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012, to date since the law came into effect breaking down the numbers into the nationality and country of origin of those registered.
Answer
- In June 2014, (the latest figures published by the Statistics Unit), the working population was 58,330, of which 49,980 were in the private sector. (This represented an annual increase in employment of 620, of which 420 was in the private sector).
- The figures below show all those people applying for registration cards under the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012 during the requested time period. Applying for a registration card does not mean people are new to the Island, as everyone needs a registration card when moving house or changing jobs. When issuing cards we ask for an applicant's nationality, not country of origin.
Nationality | 1st October 2014 – 31st December 2014 |
British (Jersey born in brackets) | 3,200 (1,698) |
Portuguese | 682 |
Polish | 287 |
Irish | 94 |
Romanian | 87 |
French | 48 |
Filipino | 22 |
Italian | 20 |
South African | 19 |
Latvian | 17 |
Indian | 16 |
Spanish | 14 |
Australian | 13 |
Thai | 13 |
Hungarian | 12 |
Canadian | 9 |
Czechoslovakian | 9 |
German | 8 |
Dutch | 7 |
Kenyan | 6 |
New Zealander | 6 |
Zimbabwean | 6 |
American | 5 |
Austrian | 5 |
Slovak | 5 |
Bulgarian | 4 |
Russian | 4 |
Swedish | 4 |
Chinese | 3 |
Finnish | 3 |
Mauritian | 3 |
Swiss | 3 |
Belgian | 2 |
Brazilian | 2 |
Cypriot | 2 |
Danish | 2 |
Israeli | 2 |
Jamaican | 2 |
Moroccan | 2 |
Norwegian | 2 |
Peruvian | 2 |
Turkish | 2 |
Argentine | 1 |
Bangladeshi | 1 |
Barbadian | 1 |
Botswana | 1 |
Egyptian | 1 |
Greek | 1 |
Icelandic | 1 |
Lebanese | 1 |
Libyan | 1 |
Malawian | 1 |
Mexican | 1 |
Nigerian | 1 |
Pakistani | 1 |
Republic of Belarus | 1 |
Singaporean | 1 |
Ukrainian | 1 |
Zambian | 1 |
Total | 4,671 |
- The figures below show all those people applying for registration cards under the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012 during the requested time period. Applying for a registration card does not mean people are new to the Island, as everyone needs a registration card when moving house or changing jobs. When issuing cards we ask for an applicant's nationality, not country of origin.
Nationality | 1st July 2013 – 31 December 2014 |
British (Jersey born in brackets) | 26,438 (12,579) |
Portuguese | 4,714 |
Polish | 2,520 |
Romanian | 860 |
Irish | 714 |
French | 315 |
South African | 178 |
Indian | 156 |
Thai | 131 |
Bulgarian | 126 |
Latvian | 122 |
Filipino | 111 |
Italian | 108 |
Kenyan | 94 |
German | 93 |
Spanish | 89 |
Hungarian | 85 |
Dutch | 74 |
Australian | 70 |
Canadian | 58 |
Zimbabwean | 53 |
New Zealander | 50 |
American | 49 |
Swedish | 49 |
Czech Republic | 48 |
Slovak | 40 |
Bangladeshi | 29 |
Russian | 28 |
Lithuanian | 26 |
Pakistani | 26 |
Brazilian | 22 |
Austrian | 21 |
Chinese | 21 |
Belgian | 18 |
Cypriot | 18 |
Malaysian | 14 |
Mauritian | 14 |
Turkish | 14 |
Finnish | 13 |
Danish | 12 |
Slovenian | 12 |
Swiss | 12 |
Jamaican | 11 |
Maltese | 11 |
Sri Lankan | 11 |
Ugandan | 11 |
Malawian | 9 |
Norwegian | 9 |
Moroccan | 8 |
Egyptian | 7 |
Estonian | 7 |
Greek | 7 |
Venezuelan | 7 |
Zambian | 7 |
Israeli | 6 |
Singaporean | 6 |
Tunisian | 6 |
Croatian | 5 |
Ghanaian | 5 |
Icelandic | 5 |
Argentine | 4 |
Cuban | 4 |
Japanese | 4 |
Mexican | 4 |
Gambian | 3 |
Grenedian | 3 |
Republic of Belarus | 3 |
Saint Vincentian | 3 |
Bosnian | 2 |
Guyanese | 2 |
Jordanian | 2 |
Nepalese | 2 |
Peruvian | 2 |
Tongan | 2 |
Vietnamese | 2 |
Barbadian | 1 |
Cambodian | 1 |
Kazakhstani | 1 |
Lebanese | 1 |
Libyan | 1 |
Nigerian | 1 |
Senegalese | 1 |
Ukrainian | 1 |
Total | 37,833 |