Migrationwatch StatementImmigration and Housing Pressures: Government Response Misleading | Migration Watch UK
The Government statement in response to the Migrationwatch report on this subject recognises that “immigration is, of course, a factor in population growth”. Indeed, it is projected to account for 83% of future population growth. The Government statement did not challenge the estimate that 32% of household growth will be due to immigration, no doubt […]
MW56 : The impact of immigration on housing demand | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. Since coming to power in 1997 the government has encouraged much higher levels of immigration. Net international migration has increased from an average of about 50,000 per year in the period 1993-7 to 166,000 in 1998-2004. However, the government failed to adjust the housing programme to take account of this extra demand. These high […]
Amnesty for illegals ‘no answer’ to failure of immigration policy | Migration Watch UK
An amnesty for illegal immigrants is not the answer to the crisis facing the UK and should be firmly rejected because it would simply make the existing problem worse, says a new report out today. The Migrationwatch report examined the experience of the UK and Europe(see report) and finds that in comparable countries where amnesties have […]
An amnesty for illegal immigrants?
Summary1. An amnesty for illegal immigrants in Britain should be rejected because: – it is wrong in principle to reward illegal behaviour. – amnesties have demonstrably failed in other EU countries and are strongly opposed by the French and German governments. In the past 20 years Italy has granted five amnesties and Spain six. The […]
UK should not ‘go it alone’ over opening Labour market to Romania and Bulgaria | Migration Watch UK
The arrival of very large numbers of Romanian and Bulgarian workers in the UK is a distinct possibility if the Government is one of a handful of EU states to ‘go it alone’ and again allows unrestricted access to the UK labour market to these countries when they join the EU as expected next January, […]
Migration Watch Response to ITEM Club Report on the “Benefits” of East European Immigration | Migration Watch UK
A report out today by Migrationwatch suggests that the recent ITEM Club report on the “benefits of the new immigration” from Western Europe was far more negative than first realised. (Read Report) It pointed to the loss of 50,000 jobs by British workers by 2010 with virtually no benefit to the host community. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, […]
Potential immigration from Romania and Bulgaria
Summary1. Romania and Bulgaria are due to join the EU on 1 January 2007. 2. Labour market transitional arrangements will be virtually the same as for the first round of East European candidate countries. 3. Their combined population is nearly 30 million and their unemployment rates are 8% (Romania) and 10% (Bulgaria). Bulgaria has 700,000 […]
MW38 : Item club on ‘Benefits’ of East European immigration | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. This report only addresses 1/3 to 1/4 of foreign immigration. It assumes that the workers have no dependants. Even so, it finds only a very small benefit to the host community of about 1 per head per week. A small allowance for dependants reduces this to zero. The main effect is to hold down […]
£2.5bn Immigrant contribution claim is yet another ‘dodgy dossier’ | Migration Watch UK
Repeated Government claims that immigrants contribute £2.5bn more to the British economy in taxes than they receive in benefits and state services have been exposed as entirely false. Instead of a surplus of £2.5bn the true figure is actually a deficit of £200m for the year the Government chose, says a report from Migrationwatch out today. (Read report) […]
The fiscal contribution of migrants
Summary1. A Home Office report in 2002 claimed that migrants contributed 2.5 billion more in taxes in 1999/2000 than they received in benefits and State services. 2. This claim has been continually repeated to support the assertion that the government’s policy of large-scale immigration is economically beneficial for the country. 3. The Home Office calculations […]