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Massive public demand for annual immigration limit. | Migration Watch UK
The public have comprehensively rejected the Government’s ‘no limits’ immigration policy and instead have called for an annual limit on numbers. By 76% to 10% they strongly agreed (50%), or agreed (26%), there must be an annual limit to the number of immigrants allowed to come to Britain (only 4%
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
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 figures show true extent of immigration impact on housing demand. March 14, 2006 | Migration Watch UK
Attempts to play down the impact of immigration on UK housing have badly backfired following the publication today of household projection figures from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The figures show that immigrants will need 1.5 million homes in the period from 2003 to 2026 – that’s 65,000
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
Sir Andrew Green commenting on the release of the latest asylum statistics today | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on the release of the latest asylum statistics today Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, said: ‘We welcome the significant fall in asylum claims last year but removals are stuck at the same level as 2004 so the Home Office have fallen well short of the Prime Minister’s target.
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