Impact of immigration greatly understated in housing projections | Migration Watch UK
‘Building more homes is not a panacea and the impact of such a housing programme on the environment could be unsustainable.’ House of Commons Committee, ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the regions, April 2003 Estimates of the number of new homes required in England over the next 20 years have been seriously underestimated because […]
The impact of immigration on England’s housing
Summary1. Every few years the Government produces projections of the number of households in England which help to inform planning policies. The last projections were produced in 2000 based on 1996 population projection data. The projections indicated an increase in households of just over 3.8 million in the period 1996-2021. 2. The household projections, and […]
Immigration rise prompts NHS cost fears… | Migration Watch UK
A report out today warns of the potential impact on the NHS of the cost of treating the rising numbers of patients with infectious diseases resulting from the very great increase in asylum and immigration in recent years. Research by think-tank Migrationwatch indicates that the number of cases could run into tens of thousands and […]
Health Consequences of Current Immigration Policy
Summary1 The Government has commissioned an urgent review of the issues surrounding immigration and health screening. This paper underlines the likely scale of certain infectious diseases resulting from the flow of migrants into the UK, some of them from countries of high prevalence. The number of cases could run into tens of thousands and the […]
Social costs of mass immigration outweigh small economic gain. | Migration Watch UK
In response to a Home Office report on December 10, 2002 claiming that current levels of immigration provide economic advantage to the UK, MigrationwatchUK issued the following statement: ‘The Home Office statement that “Migrants Boost the Labour Market” misses the point entirely. Of course migrants add to the labour market. But all authoritative studies (the […]
MW182 : Executive Summary of joint research study by the Home Office & Cabinet Office: Migration: An Economic & Social Analysis | Migration Watch UK
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