Record net migration and the rising demand for housing
Summary 1. If net migration to the UK is allowed to continue at the present record level of 606,000 per year, the UK population is projected to grow by more than 15 million by 2046 – far surpassing the level of 80 million before mid-century. It is estimated that this would result in the need […]
How can the UK stop relying on overseas doctors?
Summary Introduction 1. Medicine is amongst the UK’s most popular higher education course categories attracting tens of thousands of applicants every year who compete for 7,000 limited places in England and around 1,900 places in the rest of the UK. 2. However, the number of places has not kept up with the increasing demand for […]
Outcomes for UK-based applicants for nursing courses
1. Analysis of figures released by UCAS show that a majority (54%) of UK-domiciled applicants to nursing courses have been rejected since 2010 (348,000 out of just under 650,000 applicants). 2. More than 23,000 UK-based applicants failed to gain training places last year even as the country faced the initial onslaught of Covid. 36,200 people were […]
The Coronavirus crisis and border control
Summary 1. There is a clear risk that older visitors from overseas could add to pressures on an already struggling NHS. In recent years there have been about 14 million visitor admissions per year from outside the EU, some from countries where the virus is a significant factor. Nearly ten million of these visitors were […]
Pressure on Healthcare, Schools, Roads and Trains
The NHS Education Social housing Transport / Environment View of the public Pressure on healthcare, schools, roads and trains – full briefing 1. Between 2001 and 2016, the UK population rose by a total of 6.6 million. More than 80% of this increase was the result of immigration (see our paper). Rapid population growth will continue […]
Housing
1. We are in the midst of a housing crisis. There are too many people chasing too few homes. This has grave implications for the affordability of accommodation, especially for young people. What is driving demand for housing? 2. Immigration is a key factor. 90% of additional households created in England were headed by a […]
Improve pay and conditions in the social care sector rather than relying on migration | Migration Watch UK
The answer to possible future shortages of workers in the care sector is better pay and better terms of employment, not more migration Relying on migration to tackle potential shortfalls in the social care workforce will continue to depress sector wages and allow poor working conditions to be swept under the carpet. That is the […]
MW392 : Migration is not the way to staff the care sector. The answer is to improve pay and conditions. | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Migrants account for only about 18.4% of the care sector work force but their availability has a depressing effect on wages and conditions in the sector. A recent report shows that, if the sector remains unattractive, there will be a large shortage of workers even in the highest migration scenario. It also shows […]
At current levels of immigration to England a new home will be needed every five minutes over the next 25 years | Migration Watch UK
The DCLG has today released its 2014-based Household Projections for England for the period 2014-2039. Commenting, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: Yet again government officials are playing down the impact of immigration on household demand. Today’s DCLG publication focuses only on the principal projection of net migration to England of […]
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 […]