Immigration: The need for foreign nurses
Summary 1. The number of nurses entering the UK has risen from less than 5,000 a year in the 1990s to around 15,000 in each of the last three years. Even this number amounts to only 6% of net foreign immigration. It is not a justification for large scale immigration. 2. Overseas recruitment of nurses […]
Foreign nurse recruitment a red herring. | Migration Watch UK
The Royal College of Nurses claim today that there has been a big increase in the number of nurses leaving Britain for the United States.A report by think-tank MigrationWatch (read report) puts these numbersinto perspective. Admission to the UK Register of Nurses from overseas has roughly trebled from 5,000 in 1997/98 to 15,000 in 2003/4. […]
Immigration increase raises housing demand by m | Migration Watch UK
Future demand for housing in the UK is likely to be nearly 750,000 more than Government plans as the rapid increase in immigration is set to raise the population to record levels. When the last Government forecast of housing need was published in 2000 based on 1996 population projections they showed the number of households […]
MW53 : Housing and immigration an update | Migration Watch UK
1. Every few years the government publishes projections of households in England. These inform the governments plans for house building. 2. The last set of projections was published in 2000 and was calculated on 1996-based projections of the population [1]. They showed a projected increase in the number of households of 3.8 million between 1996 and […]
MW44 : Access to the NHS | Migration Watch UK
IntroductionThe Department of Health consultation document sets out clearly the scale and nature of the problem. In 2002/2003 some 5 million people registered with a GP. Yet, as the document goes on to explain, there is no effective check on entitlement. Entitlement is based on the concept of “ordinarily resident”. Its definition (Annex C, para […]
HIV Screening Demand as Cases Surge | Migration Watch UK
A call for the Government to introduce HIV tests for long term migrants from countries where there is a high incidence of the disease has come from think- tank Migrationwatch after government figures have shown a sharp increase in cases over recent years. A report ‘The case for HIV screening‘ from the group shows that […]
The case for HIV screening
Summary • Since 1997, heterosexual intercourse has become the largest and fastest growing exposure category for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnoses made in the UK; • A large majority of heterosexual HIV infections recently diagnosed in the UK were acquired in Africa; • The cost of managing an HIV-positive patient in the UK is around […]
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 […]
Migration and Housing
Summary1. The government has now formally admitted in a written answer (HL 627 – see endnote 5) that their household projections, and therefore their housing plans, have failed to take sufficient account of the high levels of immigration over recent years. They are based on a 1996 immigration projection of 65,000 a year. The latest […]
MW50 : Housing Report – The impact of immigration on housing in the UK | Migration Watch UK
1. The recently revealed inflexibility of housing supply and a major increase in the immigration projection point to even greater pressures on the housing market, especially for first time buyers who will face still higher prices. 2. An independent report just published by H M Treasury [1] examined the reasons for the under supply of housing in […]