Immigration: No cap, no control
Summary 1. There is little doubt that the next set of official migration statistics to issue on 23rd May will confirm that the scale and pace of immigration has run out of control and that the post-Brexit immigration system must bear the bulk of the blame. The only effective way forward is now to impose […]
Fifteen new Birminghams
Summary 1. Britain’s population growth is nowadays entirely due to immigration. If net migration were to continue at the present record level of 606,000 a year, Britain’s population would rise to between 83-87 million by 2046. This would represent an increase of more than 15 million in Britain’s population – equivalent to fifteen new cities […]
Massive recent increase in lower skilled immigrant workers
Summary 1. The Conservative election manifesto in 2019 stated that attracting highly skilled workers would be a key policy objective. The government’s aim was to make the UK “a magnet for the best and brightest”, meaning that “there will be fewer lower-skilled migrants” and “overall numbers will come down.”[1] 2. This paper finds that, in […]
Unmanaged Migration
Summary1. The Government describes its policy as one of “Managed Migration”. In practice, the tools of management are not in place,yet steps have been taken to encourage immigration on a verylarge scale. 2. Furthermore, there is a clear inconsistency in strenuous Government efforts to reduce “asylum seekers” by 50,000 a year while increasing the number […]
Direct refugee immigration to the UK
1. Around a third of a million refugees have come to the UK using 13 different refugee routes since 2005, including around 240,000 people in just the past year. 2. In addition, more than 60,000 refugee family members of refugees have come over during the period 2010-2022, bringing the total arriving via 13 routes to […]
Non-UK entry grants under the post-Brexit immigration system
Summary 1. The government promised that its post-Brexit immigration system would reduce overall immigration levels and deliver ‘firmer’ border control. Yet the opposite has happened, as we show below with analysis of Home Office (HO) data. In 2021, there were over 800,000 longer-term entry grants to non-UK nationals for work, study, family and resettlement. Meanwhile, illegal arrivals have tripled since 2018. […]
From which parts of the world have migrants come?
Summary 1. The foreign-born population of the UK was estimated to be 9.2 million in 2019/20 – 90% of whom were residing in England. Three to four million (38%) were born in the European Union (EU) and 5.7 million (just under two in three) had been born outside the EU.[1] More common reasons for those from the EU […]
Immigration and population change in the UK’s towns and cities
Summary 1. This paper should be read alongside our previous research (‘Impact of immigration in changing the UK population’, issued on 27 July 2021[1]). That paper found that the foreign-born population of the UK had doubled from about 4.5 million to around nine million between 2001 and 2020 and that the ethnic minority population of […]
Impact of immigration in changing the UK population
Summary 1. The UK is already a crowded country yet our population is growing rapidly and is also being significantly changed by immigration at a much faster rate than has been generally understood. Indeed, 90% of growth since 2017 has been driven by immigration and subsequent children. Since 2001, the foreign-born share of the population […]
What action is the government taking to tackle overstaying?
Summary 1. The number of foreign nationals who need a visa but who the Home Office did not record as departing the UK on time nearly doubled from 50,000 in 2016/17 to nearly 92,000 in 2019/20. Additionally, the most recent investigation into the number of visitors from more than 50 countries who do not need a visitor […]