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Commenting on ChrisBryant’s Immigration speech, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UKsaid: “Chris Bryant’s speech ducksthe main issue. It says little about the level of immigration or howLabour intends to bring it down after allowing the total to reach four millionon their watch.

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Commenting on the report, Mr Alp Mehmet,Vice Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “The Chief Inspector is right topoint to inadequate Border Force resources, especially at Calais. It is timethe government accepted that an effective border control can’t be had on thecheap and allocate sufficient resources to address an issue

This year’s reportby the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the sustainability of thegovernment’s fiscal position included an Annex on immigration. This suggested that the UK’s public debt / GDPratio would be considerably enhanced by a higher level of immigration. The report is remarkably frank about the lack ofevidence for any

Commentingon the report, Sir AndrewGreen, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Better statistics would, of course, be helpful. Butblunt instruments have their uses. The immigration target has been vital inturning around immigration policy which has already resulted in a reduction ofapproximately 100,000 in net migration. The exact figure may not be

Commenting on the report released by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Once again the OBR has given only part of the story. It is true that, in the medium term, migration provides a larger pool of working age people which increases tax

1. To see if there has been a recent increase inimmigration from the EU14 there are three useful sources of data: Long TermInternational Migration Data (LTIM); Annual Population Survey (APS) and;National Insurance Numbers (NINOs).  TheAPS data has only been available since 2004 and so this is the start date forthe