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 […]
Nick Clegg “lost” half a million migrants in the EU debate | Migration Watch UK
In the recent debate on membership of the European Union Nick Clegg under-estimated the increase in the EU population of the UK by about ½ million – roughly the population of the city of Liverpool. It seems that he was unaware that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have admitted that their estimates of the […]
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 […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the National Statistics of Romanians and Bulgarians in UK | Migration Watch UK
The Office for National Statistics has today released its quarterly Labour Market Statistics which show that the number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK in the period October-December 2013 was estimated to be 144,000. This is compared to 102,000 for the same period in 2012, an increase of 41 percent. Commenting on these figures, Sir […]
Lib Dem immigration policy “vacuous“ | Migration Watch UK
Last night on the BBC2 programme “The truth about immigration“, Vince Cable was dismissive of the government’s immigration objective and suggested that it was time to be “practical“. As it happens, the Lib Dem think tank Centre Forum has just published a paper, sprinkled with quotations from Vince Cable, entitled “The business case for immigration […]