MWUK press release on the impact of immigration on the public finances | Migration Watch UK
Immigration was a net fiscal cost to taxpayers of £13 billion in 2014/15 The cost of European immigration was over £1 billion Migration Watch today issued a working paper on the impact of immigration on UK public finances. Their finding is that, in 2014/15, those in the UK from other European Economic Area (EEA) countries [1], whatever their date of […]
Migration Watch UK press comment on ONS release regarding the difference between National Insurance number registrations and the estimate of long-term international migration | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Mr Alp Mehmet, Vice Chair of Migration Watch UK, said: What matters is the increase in the European-born population in Britain, which is not consistent with the immigration figures. This ONS report has not addressed that question. This ONS release agrees with our earlier analysis which noted that short-term migration accounts for much of […]
Migration Watch UK Comment on ‘HM Treasury analysis: The Long-Term Economic Impact of EU Membership and Alternatives’ | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: The Treasury Forecast takes the ONS principal population projection that has a long term assumption that net migration will be 185,000 from 2021. In other words, it assumes that the government will miss their immigration target by a country mile and we will, on the […]
Economic Impacts of Immigration to the UK
Summary 1.Impact of Immigration on the economic ‘welfare’ of the existing resident population of the UK Four studies have concluded that the impact of immigration on GDP per head is negligible (see below) but the Migration Advisory Committee pointed out in their 2012 report, Analysis of the Impacts of Migration that it is the immigrants themselves rather […]
Economic characteristics of migrants in the UK
Research into the economic characteristics of migrants in the UK was issued by Migration Watch UK today. This ground breaking research shows that while, of course, individuals from all backgrounds can and do succeed economically, overall the groups with ‘weaker’ economic characteristics comprise nearly 5 million adults, outnumbering those with ‘stronger’ economic characteristics by two to […]
Economic characteristics of migrants in the UK in 2014
Summary Key labour market outcomes of migrants to the UK show wide variation, particularly in employment status, wages and benefit claims. In these terms migrants from some regions have particularly strong economic characteristics compared to those born in the UK while others have much weaker economic characteristics. Assessments of the current and future impact of […]
Economic characteristics of migrants in the UK | Migration Watch UK
Research into the economic characteristics of migrants in the UK was issued by Migration Watch UK today. This ground breaking research shows that while, of course, individuals from all backgrounds can and do succeed economically, overall the groups with ‘weaker’ economic characteristics comprise nearly 5 million adults, outnumbering those with ‘stronger’ economic characteristics by two to […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Labour Market Statistics | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on today’s Labour Market Statistics, Alp Mehmet, Vice-Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “Ten years after accession we still find very large numbers of workers arriving from Eastern Europe, mainly to work in low paid jobs. This puts growing pressure on wages and housing. It simply cannot be allowed to continue.“
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Labour Market Statistics-February 2015 | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on today’s ONS Labour Market Statistics which show that EU workers account for the majority of the annual increase in the foreign born workforce, Alp Mehmet, Vice Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “Today’s figures show that 70% of the increase in the foreign born workforce over the past year has come from the […]
Response to UCL paper on the fiscal effects of immigration to the UK
Summary Overall cost of migration 1. Between 1995 and 2011 the fiscal cost of migrants in the UK was at least £115 billion and possibly as much as £160 billion according to a report from the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration headed by Professor Christian Dustmann at University College, London. The report found […]