International migration, population growth and households in the UK
Summary 1. This paper estimates the contribution of international migration to the increase in the number of households[1] in the UK since 1992. It uses data from the Labour Force Surveys to estimate the change over time in the proportion of households headed by persons born outside the United Kingdom. It concludes that 65% of UK […]
Huge impact of immigration on the demand for housing | Migration Watch UK
Nearly two thirds of additional households since 1997 headed by an immigrant The impact of immigration on the demand for housing in the UK is much greater than the public realise. That is the thrust of a paper issued by Migration Watch today. Nearly two thirds of the households formed in the United Kingdom since […]
Full Fact On East European Migration Falls Well Short Of The Mark
This week Full Fact – a fact-checking organisation now regularly heard on the BBC – attempted to check the following claim put to Ed Miliband by Jeremy Paxman during the leaders’ interviews of 26th March 2015: “You were predicting figures of between 5,000 and 13,000 immigrants a year from the expansion of the EU in 2004 […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the UKIP and Liberal Democrat Manifesto Launches | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on UKIP’s manifesto launch, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “These proposals are dependent on the UK leaving the EU. Were that to happen following a referendum, these are broadly sensible proposals.“ And on the Liberal Democrat’s manifesto launch: “These proposals on immigration are fairly harmless but they completely duck […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Conservative Manifesto Launch | Migration Watch UK
“It is important that the Conservatives have retained their intention to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands and set out some clear policies to help achieve that. This is welcome news.“
Migration Watch Uk Press Comment On Conservative Manifesto Launch
Commenting, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: ‘It is important that the Conservatives have retained their intention to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands and set out some clear policies to help achieve that. This is welcome news.’
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Labour Manifesto launch | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “There is nothing particularly wrong with these suggestions but nor is there anything that will have any significant effect in reducing mass immigration.“
Labour’s 2015 Election Manifesto
Labour have today released their manifesto for the 2015 general election. It contains a number of commitments on immigration; twelve in all. Indeed, all of what they have said is to be welcomed; particularly the commitment to increase the number of border guards by a thousand, the pledge to stop companies hiring only from abroad and the […]
Turkey’s Population And Immigration To The European Union
Figure 1: Actual and Projected populations of Germany and Turkey 11th December 2015 [i] http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/migration/docs/20151016-eu-revised-draft-action-plan_en.pdf [ii] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0239:FIN:EN:PDF [iii] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-15-6194_en.htm [iv] United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2015). World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision [v] Turkey 2015 Report, European Commission, http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/key_documents/2015/20151110_report_turkey.pdf [vi] World Bank
Immigration And The Demand For Housing
Huge impact of immigration on the demand for housing Nearly two thirds of additional households since 1997 headed by an immigrant The impact of immigration on the demand for housing in the UK is much greater than the public realise. That is the thrust of a paper issued by Migration Watch today. Nearly two thirds […]