Reference List of Press Releases September 2004 – August 2005 | Migration Watch UK

Sept 8:Visits from accession countries
Sept 16:Comment on PM’s article in The Times
Sept 22:Overseas Marriage (report)
Oct 4:Two million population increase per decade (report)
Oct 12:Housing demand up by one million (report)
Oct 28:Implications of EU Constitution (report)
Nov 1:Foreign nurses (report)
Nov 4:One million immigrants since 1997
Nov 11:Workers from Eastern Europe
Nov 16:Q3 Asylum figures
Dec 2:Call for HIV tests for immigration from Southern Africa (report)
Dec 13:Housing demand
Jan 14:Immigration: Economic arguments “a smokescreen” – two of the government’s key economic arguments challenged (report).
Jan 17:Call for medical staff to be tested before recruitment overseas (report)
Feb 7:Yougov opinion poll shows that 45% agree (21% strongly) that immigration will affect their vote (opinion poll)
Feb 10:Annual outflow of Londoners has doubled in the last five years (report)
Feb 21:Critique of government’s five year plan (report)
Feb 22:Comment on asylum figures and East European immigration.
March 7:Overview of economic arguments for immigration (report)
March 21:Social impact of immigration – Nearly one in five born to a mother born overseas. Close to 50% in London (report).
March 22:Response to Des Browne on population estimates
April 5:Immigration numbers likely to be higher than predicted (report)
April 10:Communities face profound change (report)
April 26:Comment on CBI economic claims
May 1:East European Immigrants and labour market (report)
May 2:Assessment of party policies (report)
June 8:House of Lords evidence (report)
June 27:Scottish immigration (report)
Aug 1:Illegal immigrants could be ¾ million (report)
Aug 23:Visa pressure could compromise security (report)
Aug 31:One million immigrants since 1997 (report)

Total 32, with 22 reports
(reports can be found on the Briefing Paper page).

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