Decade of immigration means ½ million more school places to be found in next five years – and 1m over ten years | Migration Watch UK
Over the next five years – to 2015 – over half a million more school places will be needed for the children of recent immigrants to the UK – those who arrived after 1998. This will cost a total of £40 billion over the period – according to a new report from think-tank Migrationwatch. By 2020 […]
Prime Minister gets his facts wrong on immigration | Migration Watch UK
In his pod cast on Friday 26 March, the Prime Minister said “Some people talk as if net inward migration is rising. In fact, it is falling – down from 237,000 in 2007, to 163,000 in 2008, to provisional figures of 147,000 last year”. The first two figures refer to Long Term Immigration and are […]
Sham Marriages – March 2010
Introduction 1 There has been a great deal of confusion recently about the government’s powers to deal with sham marriages. Even the Minister of Immigration seems to have got it wrong in a television interview. Briefing Paper 8.38 sets out the full position….. The BBC Report 5 On 7 January this year the BBC television 10 o’clock […]
Migration: An Economic And Social Analysis
TITLE PAGE AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARYof a joint research study by the Home Office Economics and Resources Analysis Unit and the Cabinet Office Performance and Innovation Unit. This document was given restricted circulation in October 2000 and was obtained by Migration Watch in January 2010 under a Freedom of Information Act request to the Cabinet Office. […]
The Immigration Appeals System Revised – 2010 Version
This Briefing Paper 8.30 substantially amends and brings up to date the previous version dated March 2005 (now deleted), taking account of recent changes in the law Introduction 1 The immigration appeals system has undergone major changes twice in recent years. Until April 2005 there was a two tier system, the first tier consisting of adjudicators sitting […]
Lib Dems Talk Tough on Immigration – But Their Actual Policies Would be “Disastrous” | Migration Watch UK
The Liberal Democrats immigration policy sounds tough but, in reality, is no better than the government’s “open door immigration policy” that has seen the biggest wave of immigration in our history, says a new report The policy was the first of the major parties to be scrutinised in detail by think-tank Migrationwatch as the parties set […]
The Key: Ethnic Communities Vote Heavily For Labour
By Sir Andrew Green,Chairman, Migration Watch UKThe Daily Telegraph, 10 February, 2010 I rubbed my eyes with disbelief when I saw an article by Andrew Neather, a former speech writer for Blair, Blunkett and Straw, saying that mass immigration “didn’t just happen: the deliberate policy of Ministers from late 2000 … was to open up the UK […]
Paying The Price For A Decade Of Deception
By Sir Andrew GreenChairman of Migration Watch UKThe Daily Mail, London, 10 February 2010 So there was indeed a Labour conspiracy to change the nature of our society by mass immigration. New evidence confirms claims made by a Labour political adviser last October which he subsequently tried to recant. In an article for the Evening Standard, […]
Immigration ‘No answer’ to Pension Time Bomb | Migration Watch UK
The ‘myth’ that continued mass immigration is the answer to Britain’s pensions time bomb has been described as ‘totally dishonest’ by a new report out today. The report from think tank Migrationwatch, finds that the present ratio of workers to pensioners could only be sustained by immigration at a level that would bring the population of […]
Immigration curbs could have a decisive impact on the election result. Second only to the economy in key marginals. | Migration Watch UK
The extent to which immigration is likely to play a decisive role in the forthcoming election is spelled out in a new poll published today. The poll, conducted by YouGovfor Migrationwatch, was held in the vital 57 “marginal” seats which the Conservatives must win to gain a reasonable working majority; 43 are Labour held and 14 […]