About half of the one million Eastern European immigrants, who came to the United Kingdom after 2004 have left returning to their home countries according to a report of the Institute for Public Policy Research, cited by the BBC.

The Institute looked at the impact of immigration on the UK as the EU expanded in 2004 with ten Eastern European states, and in 2007 with two more - Bulgaria and Romania.

The Institute's data shows that the Eastern Europeans' immigrant wave after 2004 had spread to all part of the UK including regions such as Scotland and southwest England, which traditionally do not attract migrant laborers.

The research concludes, however, that the number of Eastern Europeans immigrating to the UK would be decreasing further in the coming years, and that more and more of them would be going back to their home countries because the conditions there had improved.

According to the Institute of Public Policy Research a total of 665 000 nationals from the ten new EU members in Eastern Europe (excluding Cyprus and Malta) currently live in the UK.

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