MW101 : International migration in 2002 | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. On 29 April, 2004 the Office for National Statistics published its detailed estimates of international migration for 2002 [i].2. The overall net immigration total was confirmed as 153,400 people – continuing the pattern of high net immigration we have seen since 1998. In total there has been net immigration of 790,000 people in the 5 […]
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 […]
Over half proposed extra housing needed for new immigrants… | Migration Watch UK
In an interview with The Observer on 21 March, The Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, indicated that the government plan to double the rate of house building in England. He was responding to the Barker Report which recommends building an extra 120,000 new private sector homes in England each year to reduce the trend in […]
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 […]
Lid blown on migrant cover-up | Migration Watch UK
Following a story in the Sunday Times of March 7, 2004 headed ‘Lid blown on migrant cover-up’ Migrationwatch issued the following comment: ‘The Sunday Times story takes us behind the spin to the heart of what is really going on at the Home Office. The Government’s claims of ‘managed migration’ are exposed as a charade […]
MigrationWatch comment on publication of asylum statistics. February 24… | Migration Watch UK
The reduction in claims is welcome but the UK was the largest recipient of asylum seekers in the Western world in 2003. [1] This will continue for as long as we fail to remove those whose claims are rejected. A recent House of Commons report confirmed that only one in five failed asylum seekers was removed in […]
MigrationWatch response to Home Secretary’s statement in the House of Commons re 10 accession countries joining EU in May. | Migration Watch UK
We welcome the measures to tighten up the benefit system which are long overdue. We do not believe the registrations scheme is enforceable any more than the work permit scheme has been. But the real weakness appears to be that the Government has no policy as to how many people we want on this overcrowded […]