Background Briefing
Annual immigration figures for calendar 2008, the last before the election, will be published by the ONS on Thursday 26 November. The note (Briefing Paper 9.26)puts the figures, and Government claims about their immigration policy, into perspective.
Executive summary Getting immigration under control must be the first and main priority of any new government. The problem now lies not merely in illegal
Summary 1. There is little doubt that the next set of official migration statistics to issue on 23rd May will confirm that the scale and
Summary 1. The recent influx of migrants from Africa and the Middle East seeking asylum in Europe has triggered a crisis. Governments face the intricate
