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MW155 : NHS Treatment for Failed Asylum Seekers | Migration Watch UK
1 This issue came before the Court of Appeal in a judicial review case, Regina (A) v. Secretary of State for Health in an appeal by the Secretary of State against an adverse ruling in the High Court. A full report is on the Court of Appeal’s website and a summary was
Low paid most affected by immigration | Migration Watch UK
There is mounting evidence that immigration has had a negative effect on wages at the lower end of the UK labour market. There is also developing evidence of a negative impact on the employment of the UK born workers. ‘The body of evidence on this subject is growing and seems
New tax on migrants a “drop in the ocean” compared with cost of migration initiatives. For every £1 of Government spending on schemes to help migrants, new tax will raise about 7p. | Migration Watch UK
Research conducted by think-tank Migrationwatch shows that the amounts raised by the “migrant tax” are paltry compared with the significant amounts spent on government programmes specifically to help migrants. Under the Government’s new scheme, to be announced formally on 19 March, anyone from outside the EU applying for student or
Immigration to Account for a New Household Every 6 Minutes | Migration Watch UK
Government projections issued this week confirm that net immigration is now the largest single influence on household formation in England, accounting for very nearly 4 in 10 new households (39%). The projections show that, over the 25 years from 2006 to 2031, immigration will account for an extra 99,000 households
MIGRANT STOCK HAS DOUBLED SINCE 199I IMMIGRATION PROBLEM ‘HOME GROWN’ – NOT A RESULT OF GLOBALISATION | Migration Watch UK
The cause of the highest levels of immigration the UK has ever seen is not, as the government claims, global population movement but rather a series of failures of Government policies, says a new report out today from think tank Migrationwatch – “How did immigration get out of control?” Now
Statisticians Are Right To Publish And Be Damned
Statisticians can cause quite a stir just by being honest. Yesterday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the latest employment figures. They show that in the past 12 months the employment of British workers has fallen by about 250,000 while the number of foreign workers has gone up by about 200,000.