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More than half a million people are believed to have come to England from abroad over the past three years, according to Oxford University research.

And two-thirds of the 565,000 migrants believed to have arrived between 2011 and 2014 are European Union citizens, the study by the university's Migration Observatory said.

London is the city which has absorbed most of the new migrants, with almost 200,000 more living in the capital than in 2011. And behind London is the rest of the South East, with a rise of 79,000. And the North East with only 26,000 migrants choosing to live there.

Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory, said the aim of the study was to give insight ahead of the General Election. "These data show how different local experiences of migration have been across the UK," she said. "There are large variations in the size of migrant populations, as well as the share that come from European Union countries.

Prime Minister David Cameron had said at the start of his premiership that he wanted to reduce the net number to "tens of thousands".

The subject of immigration is expected to be one of the key debating issues in the run-up to the General Election on 7 May.

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