The number of architects, planners and surveyors signing off the claimant count in the six months to October 2009 to head abroad was 985.
This compares with 80 in same period two years earlier.

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The number of architects, planners and surveyors signing off the claimant count in the six months to October 2009 to head abroad was 985.
This compares with 80 in same period two years earlier.
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