The Impact of Immigration on Maternity Services in England
Summary 1 Between 2000 and 2010 births in England increased by over 114,000 – from 572,826 to 687,007. Immigration has been the key factor fuelling this increase: three quarters of the increase in births was to women born outside the UK. Overall, in 2010, over a quarter of all live births in England were to […]
20,000 Jobs go to Foreign Graduates | Migration Watch UK
It is time that British Graduates were given priority for jobs. That is the conclusion of a study published today by Migration Watch UK. Under the latest government scheme, all foreign graduates are allowed to stay on for six months to look for a job. This is supposed to attract “the brightest and the best”. It does […]
Response To The Speech By Ed Miliband
We welcome the change in tone from the Labour Party and their recognition of the real importance of the immigration issue to the wider public. However, an effective immigration policy must address the issue of scale. Net migration is now at the record level of 250,000 a year. The public still needs to know what […]
Response to Yvette Cooper’s Times article | Migration Watch UK
In response to Yvette Cooper’s article in The Times of 21 June, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “This is a very significant shift of policy and is music to our ears, confirming what we have been saying for ten years. But it is a bit rich coming from a party which, when in […]
MW267 : Post Study Work Route | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Recent reforms to the Post Study Work Route for non-EU students do not go far enough and consideration should be given to closing the route completely. Closing or restricting the ability to work after study would go some way towards making the route genuinely temporary as the University lobby claim it to be. […]
House Of Commons Debate And Motion On The Application Of Article 8 Of The Echr
Summary of the debate held in the Commons chamber on 19th June (Hansard Reference: 19 June 2012 : Column 760). Theresa May and Damian Green’s speeches are shown in full.
Overseas student route a back door to Britain | Migration Watch UK
Migration Watch UK has challenged the call by 70 University Chancellors, in a recent letter to the Prime Minister, for overseas students to be taken out of the migration statistics. This would achieve nothing except to destroy public confidence in the government’s immigration policy while any significant expansion of foreign students could blow the government’s […]
Comment by Kiran Bali on Changes to Family Migration
In response to today’s oral statement by the Home Secretary Theresa May on family migration, Kiran Bali MBE, Advisory Council member of Migration Watch UK said: “This is a very valuable step forward. We must do everything possible to ensure that new migrants are able to integrate successfully into our society. Integration is enhanced by […]
MW268 : Family and Employment Matters – Legal Notes | Migration Watch UK
1. Abolition of family visit appeals. 2. Forced marriage – new criminal offence to be created Legal Paper MW 252 refers to the consultation undertaken by the government in late 2011 on the question whether it should be made a specific criminal offence to force persons into marriage without their consent. Migration Watch responded to the […]
MW263 : Immigration – How to Achieve the Government’s Target | Migration Watch UK
The real problem with immigration is that non-EU migrants are failing to return home. That is the conclusion of a study published today by Migration Watch UK. Over the past ten years non-EU migrants have been arriving at the rate of about 300,000 a year but have only been leaving at about 100,00 a year. The Migration […]