Many East Europeans work hard but how many pay tax? | Migration Watch UK
About 150,000 pay only £1 a week net tax A new study out today reveals some of the ‘hidden’ costs to the UK taxpayer of the unprecedented wave of low paid Eastern European immigration in the past decade and how they are being ‘subsidised’ by the UK taxpayer. The research from think tank Migration Watch compares […]
MW332 : Many East Europeans Work Hard But How Many Pay Tax? | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. A single worker on the minimum wage pays in barely a pound a week in tax. If he or she has a dependent partner they are likely instead to take nearly £90 a week from the taxpayer; if they have two children this increases to nearly £300 a week. There are also major […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the Revised Net Migration Statistics released by the ONS | Migration Watch UK
The ONS has today revised the net migration figures between 2001 and 2011, in light of the undercounting of immigration during that period, discovered as a result of the 2011 Census. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “This is final confirmation that net foreign immigration under Labour totalled nearly 4 million, […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Yvette Cooper’s Immigration Speech | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on Yvette Cooper’s speech, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “This speech is elegant camouflage for the absence of any real policy on the central issue of scale. Net foreign immigration under the last Labour government totalled nearly four million, two thirds from outside the European Union. Yvette Cooper now says […]
Over half a million EU migrants expected in the next 5 years – that is more than the population of Manchester | Migration Watch UK
The recent increase in migration from the EU is likely to continue into the medium term throwing the government’s immigration policy off course and creating tension between the UK’s continued membership of the EU and control of our borders. That is the conclusion of a paper issued today by Migration Watch UK. The paper, the first estimate […]
Immigrants have cost the tax payer over £140 billion since 1995 | Migration Watch UK
Recent immigrants from 2001 to 2011 might have cost over £25 bn Migration Watch UK today issued a new assessment of the cost of immigration to the tax payer. The outcome is that immigrants cost the taxpayer over £140 billion or more than £22 million a day over the 17 years 1995 – 2011. The Migration Watch […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Net Migration Statistics | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on today’s immigration statistics Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Government policy is succeeding in bringing down non-EU migration but they have been blown off course by a sharp increase of 66,000 migrants from the EU. EU migrants now comprise nearly half of foreign net migration. These figures also show that […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Immigration Under Labour | Migration Watch UK
The ONS have today adjusted the net migration statistics between 2001 and 2011 to reflect the results of the 2011 Census. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Having discovered that the Census found nearly half a million more East Europeans in Britain than the immigration figures had suggested, the ONS have […]
Immigration and Scottish independence
Summary 1. Immigration is a major political issue in the UK yet the Scottish White paper blithely assumes that a Scottish government could run an immigration policy in conflict wit that of the rest of the UK and still retain an open border. The reality is that, if Scotland does become independent and joins the […]
Comment on Scottish White Paper – Scottish Immigration Proposals Unsound and Unacceptable | Migration Watch UK
The proposals in the Scottish White Paper issued on 26 November are unsound for Scotland and unacceptable to the rest of the UK. They would provide a barn door to England. That is the conclusion of a study released today by Migration Watch UK. The White Paper starts with the assertion that one of the major gains […]