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The Mac Report On Low Skilled Migration: Contrasting Accounts In The Press
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) yesterday released a comprehensive and thoughtful document entitled ‘Migrants in Low Skilled Work: The Growth of EU and non-EU Labour in Low-Skilled Jobs and its Impact on the UK’. The document, which stretched to almost 350 pages, examined the impacts of immigration on the UK
The Mac On The Obr And Public Debt
On Thursday the Office of Budget Responsibility will release their latest Fiscal Sustainability report. The Migration Advisory Committee have looked at the OBR’s 2013 Fiscal Sustainability Report and their finding that higher net migration would lead to a reduction in debt as a percentage of GDP over a 50 year
Migration Watch Uk Comment On The Latest Population Estimates
The UK population grew by 400,000 between mid-2012 and mid-2013, just under half of which is the direct result of net migration. Just over half of the increase was the result of more births than deaths however other statistics show that over a quarter of births in England and Wales were
International Students: Key Issues Explained – June 2014
1. Are international students of value to Britain? Yes, provided that the majority return at the end of their studies. Students pay fees and contribute to local economies through their living expenses. They also take their expertise when they leave which benefits their home country. Once home, they are more
Question Time And The History Of Migration
On Thursday evening’s edition of Question Time Neil Hamilton, UKIP’s Deputy Chairman, claimed in a discussion on immigration that more migrants had arrived in 2010 alone than had arrived in the entire period between 1066 and 1950. Mr Hamilton cited the Migration Watch UK website as his source. The source
Press Comment On The Latest Immigration Statistics
Commenting on the latest Immigration Statistics, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “These new figures confirm that migration from the EU has blown the government off course in meeting its overall target. In particular we note that the number of new NINOs issued to Romania and Bulgarian