Immirgation now five times greater than a decade ago | Migration Watch UK
Immigration into the UK is now running at five times the level of 1992. An analysis of the figures by think-tank MigrationwatchUK shows that even taking into account the Government’s recent major downward ‘adjustment’ of immigration statistics to ‘reconcile’ them to the latest Census figures (see Note 1) net non-EU foreign immigration has risen from […]
More than 100,000 ‘missing’ from immigration statistics | Migration Watch UK
Close scrutiny by MigrationwatchUK of government immigration figures has revealed that over the past 10 years some 109,500 dependants of asylum seekers have been omitted from official figures for overall immigration – even though the numbers were known. Last year alone there were more than 20,000 dependants. The ‘missing’ dependants came to light when MigrationwatchUK […]
Social costs of mass immigration outweigh small economic gain. | Migration Watch UK
In response to a Home Office report on December 10, 2002 claiming that current levels of immigration provide economic advantage to the UK, MigrationwatchUK issued the following statement: ‘The Home Office statement that “Migrants Boost the Labour Market” misses the point entirely. Of course migrants add to the labour market. But all authoritative studies (the […]
MigrationwatchUK wants proper analysis and debate John Humphrys, Sunday Times | Migration Watch UK
Writing in his weekly column in the Sunday Times on December 1, 2002 broadcaster and journalist John Humphrys said: ‘MigrationwatchUK wants emotion to be taken out of this whole issue and proper analysis and debate put back. It is right. It is not ‘racist’ to be worried about immigration. It is irresponsible not to be.’
Welcome for Home Secretary’s acceptance of Migrationwatch figures that net inward migration to Britain is now 180,000 a year+ illegal immigration | Migration Watch UK
Giving evidence to the Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons on September 18, the Home Secretary accepted that 180,000 per )for non EU foreign immigration) should be taken as a basis. Mrs Blunkett said that this figure (180,000) is ‘a reasonable estimate of the situation.’ He had earlier remarked, ‘I would not criticise […]
Home Office challenged to give their own projections after questioning figures on the scale of migration into the UK | Migration Watch UK
Following claims that figures on the scale of net inward migration into theUK from independent think-tank MigrationwatchUK were flawed, the group’s Chairman has challenged the Home Office to give their own projections.‘Our figures are based on the Home Offices’ own statistics so it is difficult to see where we can be criticised,’ said Sir Andrew […]
MW97 : The Present and Future Scale of Immigration | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. On current trends we can now expect a net inflow to Britain of at least 2 million non EU citizens per decade. On present patterns, two-thirds will settle in London and the South East. Introduction2. This paper examines the facts, drawing on publications from the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). […]
Net migration into the UK is now two million every decade and probably more | Migration Watch UK
With the number of migrants into the UK now running at two million every decade a leading migration think-tank has urged the Government to act with much greater urgency and resolution to tackle the chaos in the system and to restore public confidence. Net inward migration is now running at double the rate of a […]
The establishment of a new website to inform public debate on migration trends was announced on December 17, 2001. | Migration Watch UK
The intention is to provide the press and public with accurate and comprehensible information, to offer balanced comment and, in due course, to suggest policy options for consideration. The website “Migrationwatchuk.org” is the work of an independent and non-political body chaired by Sir Andrew Green. Dr (now Professor) David Coleman is an Honorary Consultant. The […]
MW49 : Emigration from the UK | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. Britain is a nation of emigrants, not of immigrants. Since the middle ages our people have spread to all the corners of the globe; the country’s dominant migration experience has been to send people abroad, rather than to receive them from overseas. The balance did not change until the early 1980s. Detail2. Henry VII […]