Government ‘hiding’ immigration impact on housing growth | Migration Watch UK
The Government has been accused of deliberately hiding the impact of immigration on the country’s future housing needs. The recent Household Projection report (March 14) did not even mention immigration as being a factor in the requirement to build the 4.8m new houses which it said were needed in Britain between 2003 and 2026. But, […]
Why do we need nearly 5 million new homes?
Introduction 1. The government’s massive house building programme will affect every community in the country. It is therefore important to understand why (and whether) it is necessary. 2. Projections of households for England published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on 14 March 2006[1] estimate that 4.8 million new households will form between […]
Household projections and immigration
Summary1. The Government’s policy of encouraging large scale immigration has been pursued without regard to its impact on housing. Data released by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on 14th March 2006 show that immigration will account for nearly one in three new households. 2. The ODPM’s data shows that immigrants will need […]
Communities face profound change through immigration | Migration Watch UK
The impact of the highest levels of immigration in our history is not only being felt in London but is also having a profound effect on the make up of a number of other key British cities says a new report out today.(Read report) Independent think tank Migrationwatch published a paper in February which focused […]
The social impact of immigration | Migration Watch UK
The recent surge in immigration is accelerating change in the nature of communities, particularly in London and some Northern cities. This is revealed in figures issued by the Office of National Statistics and analysed by think-tank Migrationwatch. (Read report) The statistics show that of the 621,000 births in the whole of the United Kingdom in 2003, […]
Refusal to test medical staff ‘indefensible’ | Migration Watch UK
The Government has been accused of leaving a gaping hole in the UKs defences against the spread of diseases such as AIDS and TB by its refusal to screen individuals from those countries which have high levels of these diseases before issuing them with visas for entry to Britain. An important aspect of this issue […]
Overseas Medical Professionals: The Case for Testing for Communicable Diseases
Summary1. There is, at present, no requirement for doctors or nurses from overseas to undergo medical tests in order to join their professional register in the United Kingdom. Yet there has been a very rapid increase in the numbers arriving to work here, including many from countries with high prevalence rates of serious diseases. Compulsory […]
Government admit immigration link to rise in housing demand for first time | Migration Watch UK
Government figures, just released, show that immigration will increase the number of households in England by nearly 1.2 million over the period 2001 –2021. The previous estimate, based on 1996 immigration assumptions, was less than 600,000 – half the new estimate.[1] The new projections mean that nearly one in three of the additional 189,000 households […]
Call for HIV tests for immigrants from Southern Africa | Migration Watch UK
Migrationwatch UK today issued a paper (Read Report) drawing attention to the very large number of HIV infections from three African countries. Last year infections acquired in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi accounted for a quarter of all new cases in the UK. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said, “This has gone far […]
MW46 : HIV infection from overseas | Migration Watch UK
The increase in heterosexual infectionThe annual figures for HIV infections, published recently, show an alarming trend. Homosexually acquired infections have been relatively stable for ten years (they are now at about 1700 a year). However, heterosexually acquired HIV has increased by a factor of five from about 700 in 1994 to 3,800 in 2003. Infection […]