MWUK press release on the impact of immigration on the public finances | Migration Watch UK
Immigration was a net fiscal cost to taxpayers of £13 billion in 2014/15 The cost of European immigration was over £1 billion Migration Watch today issued a working paper on the impact of immigration on UK public finances. Their finding is that, in 2014/15, those in the UK from other European Economic Area (EEA) countries [1], whatever their date of […]
Migration Watch UK press comment on ONS release regarding the difference between National Insurance number registrations and the estimate of long-term international migration | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Mr Alp Mehmet, Vice Chair of Migration Watch UK, said: What matters is the increase in the European-born population in Britain, which is not consistent with the immigration figures. This ONS report has not addressed that question. This ONS release agrees with our earlier analysis which noted that short-term migration accounts for much of […]
Migration Watch UK press release on reports the EU Commission will recommend Turkish citizens be granted visa-free travel to the Schengen Zone | Migration Watch UK
Reports have emerged that tomorrow the European Commission will propose that the requirement for a visa in order to enter the Schengen Zone be lifted for Turkish nationals. This is despite Turkey being some way from fulfilling all of the 72 requirements set out by the Commission. Visa-free travel is being offered to Turkish citizens […]
Net migration from the EU may have been undercounted by 50,000 a year. It may now be greater than the rest of world taken together | Migration Watch UK
Net migration from the EU may have been significantly undercounted. That is the conclusion of new analysis published by Migration Watch today. The analysis was prompted by the large and continuing discrepancy between the number of National Insurance Numbers (NINOs) issued to Eastern Europeans and the official immigration figures. A NINO is required to work legally or […]
Migration Watch UK Comment on ‘HM Treasury analysis: The Long-Term Economic Impact of EU Membership and Alternatives’ | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: The Treasury Forecast takes the ONS principal population projection that has a long term assumption that net migration will be 185,000 from 2021. In other words, it assumes that the government will miss their immigration target by a country mile and we will, on the […]
Migration Watch UK Comment on Migration Advisory Committee’s report on the shortage occupation list and nurses | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Mr Alp Mehmet, Vice Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “This report confirms all that we have been saying. The need for foreign nurses is a clear result of the disgraceful failure of governments to train the nurses we need. We keep being told that the NHS would collapse without immigration. The truth is that […]
Migration Watch UK Comment on the government paper ‘The Process for Withdrawing from the European Union’ | Migration Watch UK
British citizens in the EU The government paper ‘The Process for Withdrawing from the European Union’, published on 29th February, argues (pp. 17 & 22) that approximately two million UK citizens who live and work in the EU should not assume that rights acquired under free movement rules ‘would be guaranteed’ if the UK were […]
Migration Watch UK press statement on ONS net migration figures | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on the ONS net migration figures, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: Today’s figures show that there is no sign of any let up in the severe pressures of immigration on the UK. Unless a sharp reduction in immigration can be achieved we will face a continued rapid rise in […]
Emergency brake’ will have little or no effect | Migration Watch UK
The ’emergency brake’ on in-work benefits, announced as part of last week’s renegotiation deal, will have little or no effect on net EU migration. That is the conclusion of a new Migration Watch UK report. Migration Watch UK research has found that 50 per cent of those who have arrived in the past four years […]
Migration Watch UK Comment on result of UK Renegotiation with EU | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “This deal will do virtually nothing to reduce mass immigration which is the public’s greatest concern.“