Spending and staffing: UK immigration and asylum system
1. Gross expenditure on the UK’s immigration and asylum system is now costing around £1 billion more than in 2015/16. Total spending on operations for the five departments carrying out these Home Office functions was £3.4 billion in 2020/21 (£1 billion more than just under £2.4 billion gross expenditure in 2015/16). While spending on the UK Visas […]
Immigration and Economics
Evidence of a fiscal cost 1. Estimating the impact of immigration on the Exchequer is a complex matter in practice. There are few precise statistics available to the public so results very much depend on the assumptions made by researchers who have to estimate . what is paid in direct and indirect taxes by migrants […]
The assumption that migrants make a positive contribution to public finances has no basis in fact | Migration Watch UK
By Lord Green of DeddingtonChairman of Migration Watch UKBrexit Central, 21 May, 2017 In recent days the BBC have been repeating as if it were a fact a claim that the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast that reducing net migration to 100,000 a year would cost the Exchequer up to £6bn a year. This followed […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the Labour Market Statistics on Employment by Country of Birth | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Alanna Thomas, Executive Director of Migration Watch UK, said: Despite all the talk about uncertainty facing workers from the EU during the year of the renegotiation and the referendum, these latest employment figures show that the number of EU-born workers in the UK rose by a further 188,000 over the year to 2.3 million. […]
Migration Watch UK press comment on Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “If the main reduction in immigration is achieved by cutting out low paid immigrants from the EU, as we have proposed, there is no reason to think that there will be a significant reduction in revenue because these workers pay little or no tax.“
Improve pay and conditions in the social care sector rather than relying on migration | Migration Watch UK
The answer to possible future shortages of workers in the care sector is better pay and better terms of employment, not more migration Relying on migration to tackle potential shortfalls in the social care workforce will continue to depress sector wages and allow poor working conditions to be swept under the carpet. That is the […]
MW386 : Are Migrants an Economic Benefit to the UK? | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Overall, migrants in the UK have been, and continue to be, a net fiscal cost to the UK Exchequer. Only recent migrants from the EU14 have made a net positive fiscal contribution. Immigration has not been shown to have any significant impact, either positive or negative, on GDP per capita, a key measure […]
Immigrants cost the Exchequer between £4 and £17 billion a year | Migration Watch UK
The financial cost of all immigrants taken together amount to between £4 and £17 billion a year. That is the conclusion of a survey of academic work on the subject published by Migration Watch UK today. A focus on recent EU migration reveals a significant difference as between the EU14 and East European migrants. Migrants from the […]
Migration Watch UK press comment on the most recent ONS Labour Market Statistics | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Alp Mehmet, Vice Chair of Migration Watch UK, said: “The majority of employment growth has gone to non-UK nationals, including 55,000 from Romania and Bulgaria. Given most EU nationals take up lower skill, lower paid work there will be little benefit to public finances. These figures are really not anything to shout about. If […]
The Fiscal Effects of Immigration to the UK 2014/15
Abstract This paper extends the original research by Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini (Dustmann and Frattini 2014) on the fiscal impact of immigration to the UK in individual years from 1995 to 2011 by applying the same methodological principles to the most recent year for which equivalent data is available – fiscal 2014/15. The broad […]