The letter revealed the UKSA’s concerns focus on differences between ONS migration figures and data produced by other government departments - which have shown a discrepancy of more than a million EU migrants over the last five years.
Here are the mid-year population estimates for 2011 published by ONS in 2013:
The estimate of 56,170,900 was slightly higher than the Census estimate of 56,075,912 (March, 2011).
This suggests to me that if something has started to go wrong with population estimates it has happened since the 2011 Census.
Partly, but this is not to neglect the problem that the Census has failed to record both legal and illegal presences in the UK on an increasing scale in recent decades.
But the pressure on the UK's housing stock has probably ratcheted up further in the last few years.
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But the pressure on the UK's housing stock has probably ratcheted up further in the last few years.