MW53 : Housing and immigration an update | Migration Watch UK
1. Every few years the government publishes projections of households in England. These inform the governments plans for house building. 2. The last set of projections was published in 2000 and was calculated on 1996-based projections of the population [1]. They showed a projected increase in the number of households of 3.8 million between 1996 and […]
Two million population increase each decade through immigration | Migration Watch UK
Official forecasts just issued by the Government Actuarys Department suggest that immigration is likely to add at least six million to our population over the next three decades, says a new report from think tank MigrationWatch. Earlier efforts by the government to reduce immigration estimates to make them fit a flawed census have now been […]
MW102 : Government Actuary’s Department 2003-based population projections | Migration Watch UK
1. The Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) has produced, on 30 September 2004, a revised set of population projections based on the estimated population in mid-2003[1]. 2. The projections use previous long-term assumptions about net migration, mortality and fertility. The main change made to previous assumptions is that there is no longer an adjustment for the […]
Demand for overseas marriage review… | Migration Watch UK
A fundamental review of the immigration rules on marriage with partners from overseas is called for in a new report from think-tank Migrationwatch out today. (Read report). The role of arranged marriages in creating a continuous flow of immigration has been identified as being a significant source of population increase, especially in certain areas of […]
MigrationWatch comment on the Prime Minister’s article: Asylum Removals… | Migration Watch UK
The Prime Ministers article for The Times on 16 September gives an incomplete picture of the position. The article acknowledges the continued widespread abuse of the system admitting, for example, that 70% of those applying to our ports have destroyed their documents to make their removal more difficult. But the spin-doctors have played with the […]
Visits from the Accession Countries… | Migration Watch UK
Immigration and Marriage:The Problem of Continuous Migration
Summary 1. When primary immigration from the Indian sub continent came to an end in the early 1970s it was assumed that family re-union would tail off as the communities integrated. 2. That has not happened. In practice, the custom of arranged marriage had led to a continuous flow of spouses andfiance(e)s from the Indian […]
MW123 : Report of the community cohesion panel | Migration Watch UK
Introduction1. The Community Cohesion Panel has introduced a breath of fresh air and common sense into the debate on cohesion. For the first time in the series of reports that have flowed from the disturbances in the Northern Cities in 2001, the Panel addressed the issue of migration. 2. The panel was set up in […]
Migrationwatch response to the Labour Manifesto | Migration Watch UK
This is yet another spin operation. The fall in applications to the UK is less than the fall to the EU generally. Removals are down, despite the fact only one in five of failed asylum seekers is removed. The Government are clearly seeking to distract attention from the wider issue of immigration. Immigration figures issued […]
MW44 : Access to the NHS | Migration Watch UK
IntroductionThe Department of Health consultation document sets out clearly the scale and nature of the problem. In 2002/2003 some 5 million people registered with a GP. Yet, as the document goes on to explain, there is no effective check on entitlement. Entitlement is based on the concept of “ordinarily resident”. Its definition (Annex C, para […]