Press Releases : 2016

Membership of the EU’s Single Market is a recipe for mass immigration

Migration Watch UK press release: Divergent immigration rules different parts of the UK would be a recipe for chaos

Migration Watch UK press comment on ONS net migration statistics

Brexit negotiating objectives: Where are the government going on immigration?

OBR migration ‘black hole’ is highly questionable

Migration Watch UK press comment on Office for Budget Responsibility's Economic and Fiscal Outlook

Migration Watch UK press comment on today's ONS Labour Market Statistics

Migration Watch UK Press Release - Brexit is a chance to improve wages and conditions for agricultural workers

Migration Watch UK press comment on Times report regarding international student migration

Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the Home Secretary's speech at the Conservative Party Conference

Improve pay and conditions in the social care sector rather than relying on migration

After Brexit EU migration for work must be reserved for highly-skilled roles with a limit of 30,000 a year

Migration Watch UK press release: Immigration and trade in the Brexit negotiations

Migration Watch UK Comment on Points-Based System

EU Migration - An Emergency Brake is a Non-Starter

Migration Watch UK press comment on ONS net migration figures

Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the ONS Labour Market Statistics

MWUK press comment on Home Affairs Committee 'Migration Crisis' Report

At current levels of immigration to England a new home will be needed every five minutes over the next 25 years

Migration Watch Press Comment on ONS mid-year population estimates

The Case of the Vanishing Non-EU Students

Immigrants cost the Exchequer between £4 and £17 billion a year

MWUK press comment on net migration and Scotland's population

Britain can expect to see annual migration of over a quarter of a million for the next twenty years – roughly the present population of Southampton every year

Migration Watch UK press release on the potential impact of Turkish accession to the EU

Between a quarter and half a million refugees and their dependants could come to the UK from 2020 onwards after acquiring EU citizenship

Migration Watch UK press comment on ONS net migration figures

Migration Watch UK press comment on ONS sub-national population projections for England

Migration Watch UK press comment on NIESR report regarding impact of lower migration to the UK

Migration Watch UK press comment on the most recent ONS Labour Market Statistics

MWUK press release on the impact of immigration on the public finances

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 press release on reports the EU Commission will recommend Turkish citizens be granted visa-free travel to the Schengen Zone

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 Comment on 'HM Treasury analysis: The Long-Term Economic Impact of EU Membership and Alternatives'

Migration Watch UK Comment on Migration Advisory Committee's report on the shortage occupation list and nurses

Migration Watch UK Comment on the government paper 'The Process for Withdrawing from the European Union'

Migration Watch UK press statement on ONS net migration figures

'Emergency brake' will have little or no effect

Migration Watch UK Comment on result of UK Renegotiation with EU

Migration Watch UK Press Comment on ONS Labour Market Statistics February 2016

EU will be unable to cope with asylum crisis without significant legal and administrative changes

Even a four-year ‘emergency brake’ is unlikely to have much impact on net migration from the EU

Migration Watch UK Press Release on UK Immigration Policy outside the EU

Migration Advisory Committee’s recommendations on Tier 2 Visas