Visits from the Accession Countries… | Migration Watch UK
Immigration and the Dutch economy
Introduction 1 The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs[1], has produced a wide-ranging study of the impact of immigration on the economy of the Netherlands. The web site is www.cpb.nl 2 The main results confirm findings in the US, Canada, and the UK that the benefit of large scale […]
HIV Screening Demand as Cases Surge | Migration Watch UK
A call for the Government to introduce HIV tests for long term migrants from countries where there is a high incidence of the disease has come from think- tank Migrationwatch after government figures have shown a sharp increase in cases over recent years. A report ‘The case for HIV screening‘ from the group shows that […]
Government challenged over immigration to fill ‘catering’ vacancies… | Migration Watch UK
Claims that more immigrants are needed to help fill 60,000 catering jobs in London have been challenged after an analysis of employment statistics show that nearly four times that number of Londoners (230,000) are unemployed – 55% of whom are aged between 18 and 34. At a press conference following the immigration ‘summit’ on April […]
Immigration now 60% of population growth… | Migration Watch UK
Immigration has accounted for almost two thirds of the increase in the UK population in the five years to 2002. Children born to immigrants after their arrival in the UK have not been counted as immigrants in this calculation – if they were the proportion would be higher. An analysis by think-tank Migrationwatch of the […]
Migrationwatch response to the Prime Minister’s speech on immigration April 27 | Migration Watch UK
Like the Prime Minister we support managed migration. The problem is that the current situation could in no way be described as managed. Foreigners are not recorded in and out of Britain and only one in five of failed asylum seekers are removed. But he has avoided the main point. Legal immigration is at an […]
Migrationwatch media comment | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on Government plans for a ‘blitz’ on illegal immigration announced today independent think tank Migrationwatch called it `largely window dressing.` The measures on sham marriages were welcome, if long overdue. But the proposals on students would have little effect as there is still to be no check on whether students, genuine or not, actually […]
Media comment from Migrationwatch on immigration ‘summit’ | Migration Watch UK
‘The Prime Minister, in his press conference, completely missedthe point. Public concern is not just about abuse of the immigration system. It is also about the nature and scale of immigration which is the highest in our history. In 2002 net non EU immigration was 233,000. Our estimate is that only just over a quarter […]
Real impact of migration ‘concealed’ in Government figures… | Migration Watch UK
The Government has been accused of concealing the true impact of immigration on our future population growth. Government population projections, published in December, claimed that three million, or just over 50%, of the projected population increase in the UK between 2002 and 2031 of 5.6 million would be due to immigration. But further analysis of […]
MW100 : Population Projections – Further Analysis | Migration Watch UK
1. Further analysis of the Government Actuary’s population projections has revealed that the impact of migration on the projected population has been grossly understated. 2. According to Government Actuary’s press release issued on the 18 December [1]: “Of the projected 5.6 million increase [in the overall UK population] between 2002 and 2031, just under half (2.6 […]