Charlotte MacDonald
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first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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And many bags are lost in transit when a passenger has to change airlines.
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Ryanair fly point to point.
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She actually applied these numbers to both Romanians and Bulgarians, but the figures she quotes are in fact just related to Romanians.
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Now first let's look at the population figures.
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68,000 is actually a very low estimate for the number of Romanians who are in the UK already.
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It is just an estimate, but the Office for National Statistics annual figures suggest there are around 93,000.
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Well, actually, that figure of 28,000 only refers to London.
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And the number of Romanians in the capital is about 48,000.
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So that would make the arrest rate higher than she thinks.
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Except this is a tally of arrests, not people.
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Well, I took a look at the data for other foreign nationals who've been arrested, and only Polish nationals have been arrested more than Romanians over the four-year period that these arrest figures span.
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And there are around three times as many Polish nationals in London.
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The Romanians are the second most arrested immigrant group, but they're the ninth most populous immigrant community.
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Or in fact, offences at all.
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Because being arrested isn't the same as being found guilty of a crime.
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But we do know that the arrests were for all crimes, not just serious crimes, as Christine Hamilton suggested.
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Good point.
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I took the liberty of arranging an interview, Tim.
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His name is Dr Jan Zinga, and this is what he has to say.
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Now certainly we shouldn't imagine that every single one of the 28,000 arrests led to a successful prosecution for armed robbery or murder.
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